Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 2 | With Doug , I felt my love had been trampled on and I was shattered that he 'd chosen , emotionally , to abandon me . ’ |
| 3 | I felt our whole age was a hoax , a sham . |
| 4 | I felt our situation had been reversed : now I was the halting beginner , he was the fluent expert . |
| 5 | And when I left , I looked again , and there were no shadows , so I knew our prayer had been heard . ’ |
| 6 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought our house had been hit . ’ |
| 8 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 9 | ‘ I said her illness had been traumatic enough without … ’ |
| 10 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |