Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 2 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 3 | ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you . |
| 4 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 5 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 6 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 7 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 8 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 9 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 10 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 11 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 12 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 13 | I had a little money saved and I began to use it up . |
| 14 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 15 | one step to another and the hospital , the hospital and I went up to Maidenhead hospital and they said do n't stretch , do n't bend , do n't lift , do n't carry and I said thank you I 've got a school girl , a toddler and a new baby , and I did n't bother to go back any more |
| 16 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 17 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 18 | Had you phoned well I did n't know if you 'd phoned after I 'd rung you , or before I 'd rung you . |
| 19 | Was he annoyed cos I 'd taped it ? |
| 20 | unfortun unfortunately I mean if I 'd left it where it was erm would have , it would have been better . |
| 21 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 22 | As we walked towards an ancient Volkswagen she took my arm and rested too heavily upon it and asked if I 'd brought her anything from London . |
| 23 | You asked if I 'd got it that 's how I got it , knew what it was |
| 24 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 25 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 26 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 27 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 28 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
| 29 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 30 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |