Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 2 | I never stopped loving you , either … however hard I tried to fool myself that I had … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Nothing but disaster has attended me since I left your side . |
| 5 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 6 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 7 | My conscience has troubled me since I left Oxford . |
| 8 | I tried ringing them and I did n't get any answer on the phone |
| 9 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to attack him but I did n't have enough patience . |
| 11 | ‘ That was the way I tried to show you that I loved you , ’ Julius answered in a low voice . |
| 12 | When he got up to go I tried to tell him that I understood , that I would n't say anything if he would take me home , but he backed away out . |
| 13 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |
| 14 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
| 15 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 16 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 17 | Irate with frustration through constantly having to pick up my pencils after bending over , I really thought I 'd cracked it when I bought a ‘ posh ’ mechanical pencil , with a clip . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd seen it but I 'd never tried it . |
| 19 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 20 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 21 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 22 | There 's no fat i , there 's just a teeny little drop of oil in the mince and I and I poured the fat off after I 'd done it and I did n't really need butter in the potato so that |
| 23 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 24 | I could n't think of anything I 'd promised anybody and I had n't anything musical on for a few days , so that was all right . |
| 25 | She came to seem me before I began to use the LM potencies and there was some minor pathology in the kidney related to surgery for prolapsed kidney , so I was reluctant to use higher than 200 . |
| 26 | The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it . |
| 27 | I wondered where she 'd found one but I said nothing . |
| 28 | Nicola seemed to fancy me and I fancied her . |
| 29 | My Exhilarator visor was still in the grass where I 'd left it and I sat down beside it to take stock of my stings , bruises and cuts . |
| 30 | Everybody seemed to shun her but I felt sorry for her and we became close friends . |