Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 2 | Several people turned up , apparently , but only one person agreed to come as I remember it : Alan Chapman , an unposh boy with a big blue scar down his nose . |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | Some days later , a farmer phoned to discover whether I knew the meeting times and places of witches in his area . |
| 5 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 6 | As I climbed , I tried to remember if I had shut the Wheel Room door . |
| 7 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 8 | She hesitated , said shyly , ‘ That is something I have learned , I suppose — that in the past I never stopped to think before I spoke or acted … though , goodness knows , you both told me to , often and often . ’ |
| 9 | And then they tried to take and I said Well thank you very much I wo n't have a refund after all . |
| 10 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 11 | He had a very well-developed but dry sense of humour which I often tried to copy and I think that is why people used to say I was like him . |
| 12 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 13 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 14 | For some reason or other , ever since the last meeting with Leon Shelly in the hotel lobby , and my introduction to Hellen Semmens , my interest in Shelly Films seemed to increase and I found several occasions on which to ring Hellen about arrangements for the further use of CBC announcers . |
| 15 | My heart and stomach seemed to collide as I heard a rapid panting noise come over the phone behind Eric 's muttering . |
| 16 | I played to win and I did . |
| 17 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 18 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 19 | You did n't have to focus some kind of internal microscope , as you seemed to do when I challenged you . |
| 20 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 21 | The faces seemed to shift as I looked at them . |
| 22 | My hand seemed to explode and I think I must have screamed . |
| 23 | But things seemed to change when I went to Oxford . |
| 24 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 25 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 26 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 27 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 28 | I was chatting to her one lunch-time and just happened to mention that I kept and bred barn owls . |
| 29 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 30 | I happened to mention that I did n't much like my sister 's husband . |