Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 2 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 3 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |
| 4 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 5 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 6 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 7 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 8 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 9 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 10 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 11 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 12 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 13 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 14 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 15 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 18 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 19 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |