Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reasons I said I I I I could go along with that approach as well . |
| 2 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
| 3 | ‘ As a midwife I thought I knew how to communicate with mothers , but my skills with deaf women were abysmal , ’ she says |
| 4 | You probably all knew this … but just in case I thought I 'd let you know . |
| 5 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 6 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 7 | For an instant I thought I saw his face behind the mask — it was only an instant and then it was gone , but I nearly fainted . |
| 8 | For a fraction of an instant I thought I had ceased to exist myself . |
| 9 | As an auditionee I knew I worked best if I attempted something outrageous so I prepared Lord Foppington from The Relapse and you just have to let go with his Lordship otherwise there 's no point to it . |
| 10 | started school I thought it was gon na be a bit I thought I would n't like it there but when I got there , I did like it mum . |
| 11 | bit I went I mean I was feeling a lit , was n't , I 'm gon na barf ! |
| 12 | Yeah That 's the only bit I hated I 'd rather have been at work all week and I did n't |
| 13 | I said no staying at , mum , she said well bring mum I said I do n't think her a her her scene . |
| 14 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 15 | Once I reached the ski-road I thought I was ‘ home and dry ’ , until turning a bend I was confronted by a bull . |
| 16 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 17 | Of course I said I did . ’ |
| 18 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 19 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 20 | With what little money I had I would try to wear unusual suits or hats , learning a combination of subtlety and the unexpected in order to gain attention . |
| 21 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 22 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 23 | She was continuously moulting as she grew her feathers , and however many times I hoovered I could never get it all . |
| 24 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 25 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 26 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 27 | From my attic bedroom I thought I surveyed the world . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , how would you feel if at some point in the future I said I wanted to go back to Australia ? ’ |
| 29 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 30 | Do you know , when I went , last one , with the club I thought I 'm not going again ! |