Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] i [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 2 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 3 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 4 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 5 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 6 | Now they were making it clear that they expected more from her : " If I had done reasonably well , they would say that I should have done better , and if I had done badly , they would ask , " What 's wrong with you ? " " |
| 7 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 8 | And after I 'd gone home yeah ? |
| 9 | I had some woodwork to finish off indoors and after I 'd glued up I had some light sanding to do . |
| 10 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 11 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 12 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
| 13 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 14 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 15 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 16 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 17 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 18 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 19 | But before I 'd got very far with my story he shrugged his shoulders and said he did n't believe me . |
| 20 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 21 | I was upset , but when I 'd calmed down , I wondered if Roby was right . |
| 22 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |