Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used sometimes to have to make an effort to be cheerful , but I have never had to restrain myself from bursting into violence and anger … |
| 2 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 3 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 5 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 6 | cos I never entertain none of them , I 'd just used to sit there and laugh , I never spoke to David from the day everybody left . |
| 7 | Bashed your dad 's side , the wing and we could see a policeman putting , it was pouring with rain and he was putting his er , big mac on and he should of been directing the traffic , he told us that , he come over to us and he was only young like and he said , oh I 'd just left , I was on duty here I 'd just left to go and put my mac on ! |
| 8 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 9 | and I 'd just finished training as a nurse and I thought I was really cool and calm and I would of reported it , but I did n't |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 11 | By 10.30pm the contractions were getting even stronger and I was beginning to feel like I 'd just finished running a marathon . |
| 12 | I got up , I remember like I 'd just I 'd just learnt to dive off the first one like I was running down like , yes ! |
| 13 | 'cos I 'd just learnt to play this , thought it was ever so clever , and she put her hands on me hands , and she said , no , no , you must n't play that , not while we 're in uniform . |
| 14 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 15 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 16 | Came home , she came home with me , she came home with me , and I 'd just learned to play the piano , and I played that , it was , we 'd just come from Guides , you see , and I I was only young . |
| 17 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 18 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd rather hoped to enjoy the same conditions myself . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
| 21 | I 'd even begun to fail in bed . |
| 22 | I 'd also stopped looking at the sculpture . |
| 23 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 24 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , ’ Ellie said ruefully , ‘ I 'd best try to ask only ordinary questions , then , had n't I ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'd already begun to realise something was wrong , but then they confirmed it . |
| 27 | Yeah , it was alright but I 'd I 'd more or less just met your mom then you see and I 'd already arranged to go skiing . |
| 28 | I was in Nassau on business today but could n't keep my mind on it because I 'd already decided to come up here tonight and be with you . |
| 29 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 30 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |