Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 2 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 3 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 4 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 5 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 6 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |
| 7 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 8 | Although I did phone up to protest about what Brian Clough was at , when he dropped Bremner and Clarke in favour of McGovern and O'Hare . |
| 9 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 10 | Although I wanted to rush back upstairs and read the letter straight away I decided to hold onto it and read it later . |
| 11 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |
| 12 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 13 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 14 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 15 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 16 | I was trying to think of rubbish that I 'd taken out . |
| 17 | you 'll you 'll be very comfortable with it and I can tell you now that 's one of the things that I got tied up with so |
| 18 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 19 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 20 | I when I went , you know when I went down , do you remember I told you that I got caught up with him ? |
| 21 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 22 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 23 | And a lot of the book is concerned with developing this theme , and that I thought came out quite well in the classes , so I wo n't bother to repeat all that , because I thought we did that fairly thoroughly in , in the class . |
| 24 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 25 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 26 | The ground was lumpy and bumpy and there was a thistle somewhere that I kept rolling over on to , but I did n't care , I was helpless , and so was he . |
| 27 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 28 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 29 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 30 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |