Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I got married do you think this could be part of my trousseau , Mo ? ’ |
| 2 | I tried to meditate to stimulate my faith but gave up . |
| 3 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |
| 4 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 5 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 6 | I seemed fated to spend my time with them and it made me feel incomplete as though I were yet unborn . |
| 7 | In the excitement I seemed to have lost my voice . |
| 8 | I seemed to have worked my way down to the bottom of my list . |
| 9 | Anyway , last week I seemed to have typed my diary much in the style that Ms Keller would have . |
| 10 | I 'd pretended to lose my temper and he spotted it . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd hoped to telephone you whilst in London part of this last week for meetings of the British Association of Industrial Editors but got stricken by flu ! |
| 12 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 13 | I 'd began to think I 'd got this agoraphobia whatever it is , I never wanted to go out . |
| 14 | certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed |
| 15 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 16 | The rats had not shown themselves again , but I 'd begun to feel them watching me from shadowed hiding places . |
| 17 | He thought I 'd ridden to block him and help Cardus . |
| 18 | ‘ By morning I 'd decided to take myself off to Prague . ’ |
| 19 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |
| 20 | Having explained once more she added , ‘ I 'd intended to tell you all together this afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | For years I 'd intended to climb them sometime , but psychologically they are very skilled at keeping aspiring visitors away . |
| 22 | Mother-of-four Dawn adds , ‘ Kim and I had a cry together and I told her that just because I loved Colin , it did n't mean I 'd stopped loving her . ’ |
| 23 | I loved him , I 'd stopped loving you . |
| 24 | I did n't mean it to sound like that — that I 'd stopped loving you and was falling again . ’ |
| 25 | I was afraid Dana had been hurt , though if I 'd stopped to think I would have known she was n't . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That explains why she did n't show up — I 'd arranged to take her riding . |
| 27 | I 'd arranged to meet someone . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I never had the time , even if I 'd wanted to take it up . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here . |
| 30 | The first thing I was conscious of was the smell ; I 'd ceased to notice it when I was in and out all the time , but after a week away from it , it hit me in the face . |