Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 2 | And I thought you felt as I did , that it was impossible for you to have a child . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , and I thought you said that you 'd scrapped all that ? |
| 4 | You know when the eyes kept itching , last time , and I said I wondered if it were 'cos of birds , |
| 5 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 6 | If I stopped I found that she 'd immediately close them again . |
| 7 | I never understood this until I realized he meant that his characters ' uselessness , indolence and longing were typical of the adults he knew when he was a child . |
| 8 | If I wrote , his answer might well be on a postcard , but I knew he understood and cared . ’ |
| 9 | She said no more about it , but I knew she worried when these unexplained absences occurred . |
| 10 | Then just before I left I heard that Jennifer 's MS had been diagnosed . |
| 11 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 12 | In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems . |
| 13 | But w as I said we did because we did n't have a pig . |
| 14 | As I watched she turned and almost floated on light footsteps into the hall then through the lounge door . |