Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the church , where I had climbed and hidden overnight . ’ |
| 2 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 3 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 4 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 5 | Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something . |
| 6 | About ten metres from the finish I knew that I had qualified and eased , finishing second ahead of Dennis Mitchell . |
| 7 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 8 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 9 | Then , even as I talked I began to see , for almost the first time , some of the negative factors that I had suppressed or disregarded . |
| 10 | Then Gillian blabbed to Stuart that I wanted to come and watch her at work . |
| 11 | ‘ But then I thought , no , let's go crazy , ’ says Alison , ‘ so I went shopping and found the shorts in a shop on the King 's Road that specialises in tight gear . |
| 12 | He says , ‘ All right , 125 ’ ; and then after ten minutes he says , ‘ On your way , ’ so I got dressed and went out and thought , ‘ Now I 'm for it , ’ but I heard nothing more . |
| 13 | But she was not on the tour , so I had to grin and bear it . |
| 14 | Abu Salim decided that a third day was n't necessary so I had to grin and bear it . |
| 15 | I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain . |
| 16 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 17 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 18 | Unfortunately , I could n't get the pictures to hang correctly in my kitchen , so I decided to improvise and use pots and pans instead . ’ |
| 19 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 20 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
| 21 | It stuck in my throat and I had to cough and cough to dislodge it . |
| 22 | Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife . |
| 23 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 24 | I had to keep the fire going for example and I had to go and get er some e Eccles cakes for Uncle Jonathan for his tea . |
| 25 | ‘ Dick had a meeting with some Church Army people and I had to go and help with the coffee so I missed Paul coming out . ’ |
| 26 | cos he was doing the thing and writing down the list and I had to go and find him with her . |
| 27 | Mrs Field rode to hounds twice a week , and I had to prepare and lay out her clothes before and after the hunt . |
| 28 | Summer was coming , and I continued to watch and learn . |
| 29 | Now I got one lot of fruit juices and I said to go and get some more and there were six empty on the thing then I chucked them in and then there were another six empty like . |
| 30 | Then the organ grinder pulled me away and I began to cry and pull at his coat . |