Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To gaze on thee I left the smoaking Pail ; |
| 2 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 3 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 4 | I left for my weekend break after those first five days wanting to hug everyone I met . |
| 5 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 6 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 7 | It is clear from everyone I asked to comment that I was not alone in thinking the evening was a resounding success . |
| 8 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 9 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 10 | I wrote to just about everyone I knew , and then I found some great pen pals through a dog magazine . |
| 11 | He seemed to know everyone I knew . |
| 12 | A great magnificent image that I did n't want to use as material for a silly magazine article , but which I just could n't resist sharing with everyone I knew and did n't know . |
| 13 | I said ‘ Hullo ’ to everyone I knew , and Violet Sangston introduced me to the people I did n't know . |
| 14 | Loosing to Coventry and then Charlton in the space of a couple of weeks made just about everyone I knew suicidal — and all cause of Brendan Ormsby failing to kick the ball out into touch on his own dead ball line . |
| 15 | For the following twenty-seven days I approached everyone I knew , from the Bow Building Society to distant aunts , even fellow-students , but none of them showed the slightest interest in backing a young woman undergraduate to the tune of sixty pounds in order that she could buy a fruit and vegetable shop . |
| 16 | Of course , everyone I had met today had this wide-eyed look ; the wounded , the jeep drivers , and the Commandos occupying the weapon pits . |
| 17 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 18 | And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know . |
| 19 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 20 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 21 | This was my first visit to the line and apart from being impressed by the set-up I felt a genuine warmness from everyone I spoke to . |
| 22 | ‘ You were rather mean by the way to tell everyone I spoke to — or was about to speak to — not to talk any more to Scotland Yard . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 24 | It seemed to me I owed him some explanation . |
| 25 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 26 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 27 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 29 | You were looking at me I knew you were going to say that |
| 30 | As the wave of relief flooded through me I saw Mr Bailes climbing over the wall from the next field . |