Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May . |
| 2 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 3 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 4 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 5 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 6 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 7 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 8 | ‘ You see that I had you in my mind ! ’ |
| 9 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 10 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 11 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 12 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 13 | Because there were , there were easily three lists of influence on referrals that you need to be attuned to , that I gave you in that one erm praise , give a bit of praise to my wife because all I 'm proud of crafty , I thought , you know , why did n't you say that was a beautiful brief . |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 15 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 17 | ‘ Until recently , ’ Carl said , ‘ there were no provisions for new ideas , so I kept them in my files until a need arose . |
| 18 | After that , I realised I 'd get nowhere thinking about you , ’ he continued , ‘ so I immersed myself in my construction company . |
| 19 | I could not find a reason for leaving him , so I accompanied him in silence . |
| 20 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 21 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 23 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Matthews and I got them in town , Dr Streeter . |
| 25 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 26 | It was my first piece , and I got it in my head immediately ; I had been very depressed and I think he saved my life . ’ |
| 27 | and I ordered it in November , it finally came in February . |
| 28 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 29 | SAD , disappointed and deeply frustrated : Lady Chatterley and I had plenty in common by the end of Sunday 's opening episode . |
| 30 | I felt that he and I had something in common . |