Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you remember I stopped no you wo n't remember but I stopped because I was writing down exactly what we were doing |
| 2 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 3 | The spelling mistakes only occurred when I was shouted . |
| 4 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 5 | I came because I was asked . |
| 6 | Anyway , the first thing I noticed as I was going upstairs was one of Popova 's pictures with a bath-tub hanging over it … |
| 7 | I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ . |
| 8 | One of my best catches of big bream , five to 11lb 1oz and only one less than 9lb at 8lb 14oz , came when I was fishing alone . |
| 9 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 10 | He asked if I was related to Margaret . ’ |
| 11 | He asked if I was seeing someone else . |
| 12 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 13 | Jimmy was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ What sort of thing did you mean when you asked if I was suffering any after-effects ? ’ |
| 14 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 15 | ‘ When Paddy Ashdown parachuted me in , I asked him what happened if I was taken prisoner . |
| 16 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 17 | One more ‘ accident ’ that happened when I was using the Brother cast-off linker . |
| 18 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 19 | The same thing happened when I was lameducking Donald last spring . |
| 20 | It happened when I was standing beside Anne , resting between dances . |
| 21 | ‘ It all began before I was born , ’ she said , unaware that she was twisting her hands tightly together in her lap . |
| 22 | My interest in MacDonald began when I was given a well-worn copy of his Unspoken Sermons . |
| 23 | One memory stands out — the sound of a child crying which I heard when I was walking past some flats . |
| 24 | He rang while I was reaching for the phone . |
| 25 | It started when I was having tea … |
| 26 | ‘ I felt if I was dropped it was not too bad to be dropped in favour of the second-best hooker in England . ’ |
| 27 | Mother of two Kiranjit — whose sons are eight and six — wept as she said : ‘ In prison I felt like I was lost . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 29 | I felt like I was suffocating . |
| 30 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |