Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart sank when I heard him say he was in full support of the government 's policy . |
| 2 | The sense of disbelief grew when I realised what a truly wonderful prize I 'd won . |
| 3 | Colette and Bernard self-published works about matters holistic and mystical , and Ken relaxed when I told him I was working on a thriller . |
| 4 | Somehow we managed , and the director asked if I thought there was any chance of the weather worsening so that the boat would heel a little more . |
| 5 | In any case — thank God — eventually my period came and I knew I was n't pregnant . |
| 6 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 7 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 8 | And erm later on let's see f when the war started and I mean they wanted cheap labour and all that , there was room for apprentice . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) — for the satisfying crack the CD 's sleeve gave as I snapped it over my knee . |
| 10 | ‘ Capron said if I met you again I 'd be sacked . ’ |
| 11 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 12 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 13 | Ricard vanished and I wished I could follow him . |
| 14 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 15 | and then this , this , the phone went and I picked it up and this squeaky voice at the end of the phone said |
| 16 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 17 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 18 | But that was where the trouble came when I lost my sight he was left with both the practical side and the er bookkeeping as well which he did n't understand at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 20 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 21 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 22 | He did not change expression , but an eyebrow flickered and I knew I had him . |
| 23 | JH : Something that Frans Brüggen mentioned when I met him recently [ see JH 's interview , CDR 9/91 — Ed. ] was the still prevalent post-Paganini reversal of performing interest , whereby the difficult appears effortless , and the facile of monumental significance . |
| 24 | The manse door opened before I reached it . |
| 25 | Last January my grandmother died and I took it very badly . |
| 26 | I did n't panic like Mum did and I think I calmed him . |
| 27 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 28 | My stomach turned when I heard our ‘ Number One , ’ Cmdr Boord , announce over the broadcast system : ‘ We are to escort a convoy to Murmansk . |
| 29 | ‘ I may not know how Selkirk died but I think I know why . ’ |
| 30 | Some sense of duty remained and I visited her quite regularly . |