Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 2 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 3 | I asked what young chap , and he gave me a description which tallies with what Sanders told us : about twenty-five , darkish , slightly built . |
| 4 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 5 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
| 6 | I asked my vital question : ‘ Will it run on XT ? ’ |
| 7 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 8 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 9 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
| 10 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 11 | And me with my second-class honours degree , standing there with corns on my hands saying yes sir , no sir , till I made my smart answer , my quick repartee . |
| 12 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |
| 13 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 14 | Well-that 's when I made my big mistake . |
| 15 | Then on the last night I made my big mistake , and hit that bad business I told you about . |
| 16 | On December the fourteenth I announced my provisional capping criteria . |
| 17 | Mr Deputy Speaker , I announced my provisional settlement proposals to the house on the thirtieth of November last . |
| 18 | I plaited my own hair and then I straightened my ink-stained pinafore and we were ready to go . |
| 19 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 20 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 21 | ‘ Mohammed had to go to the mountain , I 've subsidised all my previous ventures by working and saving but to get my work published I realised my only chance was England , ’ she says , where she has found three photographic agencies interested in buying her work and eight publications have bought selections of the Bolivian shots . |
| 22 | ‘ Mohammed had to go to the mountain , I 've subsidised all my previous ventures by working and saving but to get my work published I realised my only chance was England , ’ she says , where she has found three photographic agencies interested in buying her work and eight publications have bought selections of the Bolivian shots . |
| 23 | I met my future husband when he was a colonel in the Indian Army . |
| 24 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 26 | It was not until I met my current hairdresser ( who thankfully is still in the same place three years later ! ) that I realised the importance of a good head of hair , stylishly cut , well-conditioned and subtly coloured . |
| 27 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 28 | I think I met his persian cat once , during a persian cat fair in Paris . |
| 29 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 30 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |