Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I failed and the French caught me I would hang . |
| 2 | If I won and the French caught me I would hang . |
| 3 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 4 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 5 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 6 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 7 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 8 | Bill Janovitz 's sister ( a psychic told me this ) |