Example sentences of "i [vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 2 | I mentioned at the beginning the idea of a classless society , now I do n't know what you think of the er the idea of a classless society , it 's something that the th th Prime Minister erm er er talked about when he , when he took office and I asked whether you think it 's possible to have , we if you think a classless society is possible at all , whether you think it 's desirable . |
| 3 | So I asked if we wanted anything ? |
| 4 | So I asked if they wanted anything and she said a bed at the cottage hospital |
| 5 | I asked if he knew what had happened to her . |
| 6 | If I asked if I asked you to compile a list of advertisers of companies and businesses who you think will advertise in a medical practice booklet you may you may list out twenty five . |
| 7 | I asked as we turned our backs on the Pacific and began working our way back through the maze of walls and rubble . |
| 8 | I asked as I fumbled my keys out . |
| 9 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 10 | I gazed until I asked myself if I was quite mad . |
| 11 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 12 | I realized as I said it that this could sound a little tactless . |
| 13 | I realized as I turned its pages that this was probably telling me more about the country and its people than my actual visit . |
| 14 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 15 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 16 | The shock I got when I found you out again will be nothing to their reaction . |
| 17 | I trembled as I felt his power over me already . |
| 18 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 19 | But we all change , and I changed when I saw you . |
| 20 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 21 | You have n't — ’ I stopped before I said something he might take exception to . |
| 22 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 23 | ‘ I came because I considered it to be my duty , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's right , Corporal , ’ I replied as I snatched my very important pass . |
| 25 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 26 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 27 | I discovered as I picked my way through endless encounters that , even when you are your own mistress — free of guilt , responsibility or even social obligation — the excitement of different sex with new partners does eventually pall . |
| 28 | That 's why I panicked when I heard he was missing . |
| 29 | I blushed before I gave it to Gwenellen . |
| 30 | He stole a chicken from work , and I watched as he stuffed it and sewed it up with needle and thread in his girlfriend 's flat , frowning with ponderous alcoholic severity . |