Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 2 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 3 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 4 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 5 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 6 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 7 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 8 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 9 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 10 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 11 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 12 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |
| 13 | ‘ When I started using glass it seemed so much smoother and warmer-feeling that I decided to stick with it , ’ he says . |
| 14 | The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks . |
| 15 | with the exact same sheet that I did to start with . |
| 16 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 17 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 18 | KRUGER AND RAINS were our most up-front suspects , so I decided to start with the mystery man of the Cicero Club , George Macready . |
| 19 | A few fry were managing short glides over the substrate , so I started feeding with Liquifry 1 . |
| 20 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 21 | ‘ I married her when she was in her fair bloom , and I got to stick with her now she 's an owd stalk ! ’ |
| 22 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 23 | So then er and I had to do with the antique . |
| 24 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 25 | It was a strange moment , and I had to grapple with conflicting sensations . |
| 26 | And I had to help with the harvest too . |
| 27 | I had consumed several whiskies — the kind the inexpert Yorkshiremen pour as though it was ginger ale — and I had finished with a glass of old Mrs Earnshaw 's rhubarb wine which had seared its way straight to my toenails . |
| 28 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 29 | Stars danced before my eyes and I kept shaking with fear at my latest brush with death . |
| 30 | A date was arranged for the following week for both events and I agreed to go with them . |