Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having restored stability I quickly got above the cloud , found I had lost the Pole Star and somehow , like a tank commander , turned through 150° by not very gentle use of the outer engines . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 3 | After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer . |
| 4 | I guess at that point DEA assumed I had jumped the reservation and was feeding information to Pan Am . |
| 5 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |
| 6 | I felt I had handled the situation marvellously . |
| 7 | I felt I had let the team down . |
| 8 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 9 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 10 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 11 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 12 | The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day . |
| 13 | The only way I knew I had reached the summit was when I started downhill again . |
| 14 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 15 | For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs . |
| 16 | I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … . |
| 17 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 18 | Oh well er what I was going to say is that er I thought I 'd summed the person up that he 'd selected and I , I thought oh she i er it 's not gon na be easy for him , and it was n't , you know , she was a bit of a bit of a so and so I think really . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd changed the roster . |
| 20 | I was scared to death , really I thought I 'd got the push . |
| 21 | Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed . |
| 22 | She said I 'd chosen the path to failure . |
| 23 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 24 | I said I 've got the number in front of me . |
| 25 | But er when we when that er train I er had I 'd written the postcard for home and I asked a lady if she 'd post it for me . |
| 26 | how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort |