Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 2 | I know absolutely nothing about P Way but then as Norman was speaking , I realized that perhaps I could put a few ticks in . |
| 3 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 4 | And he said er , no , he said I did n't think I had he said , but now , he said I realized that how I , was forgetting er I 'd be talking and I 'd forget sort of what I was just talking about that split second . |
| 5 | ‘ No , you said I 'd handle them and at the time I agreed but now I 've changed my mind , ’ Ruth told him firmly . |
| 6 | And then I sank and then I came up again . |
| 7 | I tried that later myself but fell off . |
| 8 | I tried that once myself , you know . |
| 9 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 10 | When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged , I found that wherever there was an empty page , or half a page , someone had written on it , and on the first page was written ‘ Catherine Earnshaw 's diary , 1776 ’ . |
| 11 | He was around for five minutes when I arrived and then he vanished . ’ |
| 12 | I forgot that sometimes he could be quiet and kind , and I hated him . |
| 13 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 14 | The ones that I , I enjoyed and then there were ones that he had oh that were horrible , it was vile , yuck I did n't like that . |
| 15 | ‘ It was three parts torn away in any case and I figured that neither you nor the US Air Force would have any further use for it . |
| 16 | She shot me a look , then kicked off from the wall of the pool and I followed as best I could . |
| 17 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 18 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 19 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 20 | Erm also as far as the husband 's back trouble was concerned , I f I felt that perhaps you should 've got a bit more information about the fact that he was going for tests next week at the hospital . |
| 21 | The books were at the auditors and I did n't want to hold up the minutes and , as you 'd all mostly seen them anyway , I felt that perhaps I could let them go . |
| 22 | I knew that tonight she would make love to another man . |
| 23 | I knew that eventually I would have to walk into that screaming cloud . |
| 24 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 25 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 26 | I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it . |
| 27 | Her kindness touched me , but I knew that soon she would hear the lies about me , and then she would hate me ! |
| 28 | But then the other came at me , and the one on the top stabbed again , and I knew that now there were moments only . |
| 29 | I knew that academically I was the least qualified and assumed I would n't get it . |
| 30 | I wish I knew because then we might be able to prevent about 50% of all heart attacks . |