Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 3 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 4 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 5 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 6 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 7 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 8 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 10 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 11 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 12 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 13 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 14 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 15 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 16 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 17 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 18 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 19 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And I shared mine with an ATS girl , ’ Jane sighed . |
| 23 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 24 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 25 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 26 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 27 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 28 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 29 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 30 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |