Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan . |
| 2 | I tried to get the dog destroyed , but the vet suggested I have a re-think , so then we had it placed . |
| 3 | You must tell them on the phone after telling them the price and what it 's all about you say , Right when I come round tomorr er whenever to er strike up the deal with you I want the contract signed I need a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment as a deposit cheque . |
| 4 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 5 | When the car stopped I knew exactly where we were . |
| 6 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 7 | Er , if we turn to the revenue split I think this underscores the recession er , and you 'll notice that there 's a much lesher lesser proportion of revenue coming from advertising . |
| 8 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 9 | When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong . |
| 10 | In the last frenzied seconds as the boat tossed I thought Rachel held a pistol pointing at me , but then I saw it was only her glass . |
| 11 | In Rachel Webb 's case this meant losing the right to see her daughter , ’ The judge said I gave up my rights as a parent the day I had my operation ’ . |
| 12 | I could n't have stood the scene had I refused — and then I forgot to remove it once I started to stalk . ’ |
| 13 | The Maggot assumed I had already known that . |
| 14 | ‘ The first time the buzzer went I thought it was the ice but it was a 16 lb pike . |
| 15 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 16 | but when William the Conqueror came I think it was |
| 17 | He gave me a shrewd look , clearly suspecting that I would have changed the name had I dared defy the superstition . |
| 18 | In the opening shot I see Garfield at a lectern reading aloud from a Shakespeare first edition , bound in unborn calf . |
| 19 | When the day came I had no time to think . |
| 20 | When the day came I got up very early and managed to get myself into what was almost the front row of the crowd , immediately underneath the platform in Piazza Unità where he was to appear . |
| 21 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 22 | By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km . |
| 23 | As the whistle went I thought it could now be a bit close . |
| 24 | " The kid remarked I had devils . " |
| 25 | ‘ What I do want , I want my medicine what the hospital said I had to have . ’ |
| 26 | The hospital said I 'd better go in and sent an ambulance round for me . |
| 27 | What the hell did I expect , an ogre with two heads ? |
| 28 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 29 | ‘ If I had to have only two children , then why the hell did I have to lose my only son ? ’ |
| 30 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |