Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 2 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 3 | Faldo added : ‘ The only pressure I felt came from the media . |
| 4 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 5 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 6 | At this time , I grew disheartened with the work , and started teaching in secondary school . |
| 7 | The clerk whose job I took went on the district as a relief clerk and later relief Stationmaster . |
| 8 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 9 | I think so I said said to the bloke before |
| 10 | One fruitless morning , after an unusually rude dismissal from a eunuch 's house , I retired dispirited to a nearby dhaba for a cup of chai . |