Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 2 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 3 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 4 | If I asked if I asked you to compile a list of advertisers of companies and businesses who you think will advertise in a medical practice booklet you may you may list out twenty five . |
| 5 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 6 | I asked as I spooned a gob of whipped cream over my gooseberry pie . |
| 7 | I asked as I held the deli door open for him . |
| 8 | I asked as I stroked the baby 's fuzzy head . |
| 9 | I asked as I started the engine . |
| 10 | I asked as I fumbled my keys out . |
| 11 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 12 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |
| 13 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 14 | I gazed until I asked myself if I was quite mad . |
| 15 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 16 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 17 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 18 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 19 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 20 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 21 | It will keep for a while , at least until I have recorded a little visit I made after I finished writing my life of Elsie and the episode concerning the Butcher . |
| 22 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 23 | One of the earliest jottings I made when I began to keep a crime-writing notebook concerned just this business of plot . |
| 24 | ‘ I think so , but I fainted before I got really close . ’ |
| 25 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 26 | Thinking about it now , for the first time , I realized that I 'd no idea how a karaso was made : an arm-length shaft of wood , smooth and shiny as a newly opened conker , with five prongs at the end that were perfectly shaped into the smooth curves of a grasping hand . |
| 27 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 28 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
| 29 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 30 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |