Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juror : ‘ I 've had some drink and that 's why I asked when is it dinner time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Frederick , I asked when is the material going to be ready ? ’ |
| 3 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 4 | My choice for the new look team as I posted before is as follows |
| 5 | Among friends I met here were our hosts $insert names$ who told me that her husband was making a steady recovery from his recent illness . |
| 6 | Next thing I got on was erm |
| 7 | ‘ When I got back , I switched the tape on and all I got out was ‘ Small and tanned and young and lovely the girl from Ipanema goes walking … |
| 8 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 9 | The first thing Toby said to me when I got in was , " Somebody 's been here to see you . " |
| 10 | That night I tried not being decent , being sharp and bitchy , instead . |
| 11 | I was dragged to a place that I found later was the premises of the Secret Police , ‘ the complex ’ , code named ‘ Fixed Point One ( FP1 ) ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 13 | So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ? |
| 14 | I used ter be in the boxin' game , ’ Billy told her , still smiling . |
| 15 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |
| 16 | This means , of course , that the kind of contradiction I mentioned earlier is rarely discovered by the average fundamentalist because their one-dimensional way of tackling the text , a few verses at a time , will not lead them to make these uncomfortable and , I think , liberating discoveries . |
| 17 | The pleasant surprise I mentioned earlier was that the tank carried a recommended price tag of only £26 — and that 's less than the price of buying the glass cut to size from the glass merchant . |
| 18 | He arrived early in the morning to break his fast just as the young woman I mentioned earlier was leaving . |
| 19 | Well , things that I learnt yesterday was erm Aldershot method the structured thought patterns and the coaching erm the Aldershot method is tremendous I liked that a lot for expansion editing summarising and first class and I will use it from now on . |
| 20 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 21 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 22 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 23 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 24 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 25 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 26 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 27 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 28 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 29 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 30 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |