Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 2 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 3 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 4 | Later he became a close family friend and I envied and admired him , for he got to one remote and interesting place after another — Somaliland , Abyssinia , Kurdistan , Burma and China . |
| 5 | ‘ I planned and did what I have already told you , ’ said Tutilo , suddenly brief and dry . |
| 6 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 7 | My girlfriend and I shouted and screamed our denials , but they would n't believe us . |
| 8 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 9 | I designed and built it myself . ’ |
| 10 | I bent and put my hand on Debbie 's heart . |
| 11 | We had to have solved so much problems and I just this way and I just would n't have it you know it 's just impossible it 's impossible and I hummed and hawed which way and hummed and hawed which way . |
| 12 | I rose and followed him . |
| 13 | I rose and faced her across the table . |
| 14 | I rose and groped my way towards the fire door . |
| 15 | AGeorge I divorced and imprisoned his cousin Sophia before succeeding Queen Anne in 1714 . |
| 16 | I joked and teased them all until some of the heaviness lifted . |
| 17 | Anyway , I stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 18 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 19 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 20 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 21 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 22 | ‘ I should have paid it , but I forgot and heard nothing for ages . |
| 23 | I nodded and followed me to the house . |
| 24 | I nodded and drank my drink . |
| 25 | I frowned and brought my head up , suddenly thinking that it might just be stuffed ; perhaps somebody was having a laugh at my expense . |
| 26 | I frowned and rubbed my jaw , looking thoughtful . |
| 27 | After all this time , when I begged and begged you to cut down , why suddenly say you 're going to stop ? ’ |
| 28 | I turned and saw my saviour , the wench with black curly hair from the tavern . |
| 29 | I turned and looked him full in the face . |
| 30 | I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’ |