Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a little money saved and I began to use it up . |
| 2 | My credit card bills all arrived simultaneously , as usual , and some hours passed before I managed to disentangle the statements and envelopes from a considerable volume of frivolous and , one would have thought , peripheral material . |
| 3 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 4 | Well we had a secretary of state here who is now minister of transport , I do hope he 's watching this programme seeing as I promised we have had gains and proposals . |
| 5 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |
| 6 | Some fishermen watched as I worked — they seemed to approve of the end result ! |
| 7 | They phoned me from Mencap again this morning to see if I had any , had any lifting experience |
| 8 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 9 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 10 | That bastard on that bus , when I got off I heard this voice saying and I looked round and there 's this ragger sitting there |
| 11 | you know just to wipe him down and everything in the morning , he just grabbed that and I could see this thing tipping and I went oh god no , please , because that could of been the duvet , the duvet covers |
| 12 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 13 | A few more boys arrived and I began to realise the terrible blunder I had made . |
| 14 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 15 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 16 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 17 | After my drunken afternoon with Al I do n't feel the same need to offload as I did before , and I ca n't decide whether I ought to involve Yvonne or not . |
| 18 | Several seconds passed before I recognised the features of the PLO officer who was defending the Palestinian camp and shelling the area around Ben Ami . |
| 19 | No doubt if any letters came after I left Sian , they will forward them , as the Chinese are very conscientious about such things . |