Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was .
2 I was merely quoting what the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside said and I have said that I am willing to give way to him .
3 In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight .
4 The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village .
5 Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) .
6 Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ?
7 Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training
8 but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ?
9 I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley .
10 My worst moment came when I had to change film .
11 My rash courage ebbed and I wanted to run .
12 I 'm gon na come in first thing Monday thought cos I 've got ta pick some things up right .
13 ‘ All my inspiration seems to have dried up since Hamish left and I seem to have lost all my confidence as a woman .
14 remember that digger daddy had when I helped build the run ?
15 My conscience shouted that I had to inform .
16 ‘ The problems came when I started to find myself more and more entrenched in the business side of things , and unable to actually design stuff like before .
17 The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden .
18 ‘ My wife went but I refused to go there .
19 And then when my wife died and I had to sell all you know it disa er I think er it got away with er some old stuff you know .
20 The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book .
21 ‘ What do you mean , she finds modern poetry difficult ? ’ , one father bellowed after I had tried to explain why his not very able daughter had failed her mock exams .
22 We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears !
23 No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it .
24 That morning Doreen 's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton .
25 The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed .
26 I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’
27 When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver .
28 The piste disappeared and I stood lost in a maze of tyre-tracks , which shot in every direction .
29 I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant .
30 At Torridon my fingers froze as I attempted to sketch Ben Alligin .
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