Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital . |
| 2 | ‘ I must hiv thought that I was dreaming . ’ |
| 3 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 4 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 5 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 6 | ‘ If the Chief Constable knew that I was seeing Patrick , all hell would break loose . ’ |
| 7 | When my parents went and I was left alone I cried for most of the night . |
| 8 | My interest in MacDonald began when I was given a well-worn copy of his Unspoken Sermons . |
| 9 | The next day came and I was running round the wing like a mad thing , up and down the stairs saying goodbye to everyone , and people were saying , ‘ The bastard , she 's got her parole . ’ |
| 10 | Two days after I returned , of official notification came that I was missing , believed killed in action . |
| 11 | Winning the title meant that I was selected for Great Britain to run against West Germany in Dortmund . |
| 12 | Finally , my father came and I was discharged and taken home . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
| 14 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 15 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 16 | I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ . |
| 17 | Soon after , a message came that I was wanted in the cabin . |
| 18 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 19 | The same thing happened when I was lameducking Donald last spring . |
| 20 | On 29 April 1988 , when both the Kingman Report was published and the membership of my Working Group announced , the press presumed that I was to lead a Group which would make firm recommendations on grammar , in contrast to the equivocations of Kingman . |
| 21 | The professors realized that I was doing very important work , and so they gave me my own laboratory . |
| 22 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 23 | ‘ The main thing I remember is just how deadly quiet the whole stadium went when I was tackled . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother died when I was born , and he died shortly after . |