Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 3 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 4 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 5 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 6 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 7 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 8 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 9 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 11 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 12 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 13 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 15 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 16 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 17 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 18 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |