Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
2 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
3 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
4 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
5 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
6 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
7 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
8 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
9 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
10 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
11 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
12 | However , when he heard my answers to his questions , he realized I must be alive , and he could not hide his astonishment . |
13 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |
14 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
15 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |
16 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
17 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
18 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
19 | I left led I would say an uneventful life , but I 've been very happy you know , ups and downs . |
20 | Richard needs his nose wiped I 'll have to go upstairs and get some more tissues , who needs they 're nose wiped ? , |
21 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
22 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
23 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
24 | How we all laughed when I got it home and realised I ca n't play ! |
25 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
26 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
27 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
28 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
29 | Surely you realised I would hardly be here but for some catastrophe . |
30 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |