Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 2 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 3 | All I did say is that ca n't see us out here . |
| 4 | One business outing I did attend was that of the Association of Independent Railways ( AIR ) board . |
| 5 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 6 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 7 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 8 | The high-grade components I wanted to use were all okayed , too , and so Ampeg now have very high-grade systems which have filtered into the stuff that the other guys are designing . |
| 9 | At that moment all I wanted to hear was more of her story , but she 'd lost interest in that now . |
| 10 | Er , but the point I wanted to make was that , after trying for twelve months , first of all , er , I wrote to my local M P . |