Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another question I asked was how Bill learnt his gardening skills . |
| 2 | My colleagues were present sir and have informed me that the comment that I made is actually accurate . |
| 3 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 4 | In a public statement Bradley , who was liable to fines for failing to report major investments , said : " The errors I made were not deliberate . |
| 5 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 6 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 7 | Though what came into my mind when I realized was n't Cogito , ergo sum . |
| 8 | The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products , striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves , using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species . |
| 9 | The other factor I checked was where the recording studio was situated and how long it would take me to reach by car . |
| 10 | I 'm going back to the opticians with the , the new glasses I got are still flipping worse than these ! |
| 11 | The last one I got is not in there . |
| 12 | The best rate of exchange I got was how many pesetas is it to a quid ? |
| 13 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 14 | So having gone there I got counselling which I found was very useful to me . |
| 15 | I spent years looking for the answer , and what I found was somewhat unexpected . |
| 16 | The gaol I visited was neither overcrowded nor filthy . |
| 17 | The box I built was basically a crate with a dividing wall and a piston inside . |
| 18 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 19 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
| 20 | The polytechnic handbook which I used was not much help and my tutor has told me to ask the librarian for help . |
| 21 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 22 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 23 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 24 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 25 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 26 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 27 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 28 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 30 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |