Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 2 | Well to me it was a first time and being an unmarried man that I 'd earned anything like it . |
| 3 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 5 | ‘ A young detective remembered that I 'd had something like that stolen , ’ he says . |
| 6 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 7 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 8 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 9 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 10 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 11 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 12 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 13 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 14 | I felt that I needed to have someone around me all the time , whereas the others did not , and I was scared . |
| 15 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 16 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 17 | that I wanted to do something about safety or first aid and that 's it . |
| 18 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 19 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 20 | I was very hungry so I began to eat something at once . |
| 21 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 22 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 23 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 24 | year but the end result came when the two children did get took into foster care erm , that 's when I realized that it was a problem and I had to do something about it . |
| 25 | By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it . |
| 26 | Si tendria que hacer una cosa como ésa , me gustaria [ POSSIBLE ] — ‘ If I had to do something like that , I 'd like it ’ |
| 27 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 28 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 29 | ‘ And do you really think that if I had taken something of your aunt 's I would be stupid enough to wear it to work ? ’ |
| 30 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |