Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 2 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 3 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 4 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 5 | My worst moment came when I had to change film . |
| 6 | My rash courage ebbed and I wanted to run . |
| 7 | remember that digger daddy had when I helped build the run ? |
| 8 | My conscience shouted that I had to inform . |
| 9 | ‘ My wife went but I refused to go there . |
| 10 | And then when my wife died and I had to sell all you know it disa er I think er it got away with er some old stuff you know . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book . |
| 12 | ‘ What do you mean , she finds modern poetry difficult ? ’ , one father bellowed after I had tried to explain why his not very able daughter had failed her mock exams . |
| 13 | No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it . |
| 14 | That morning Doreen 's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton . |
| 15 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 16 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 17 | The piste disappeared and I stood lost in a maze of tyre-tracks , which shot in every direction . |
| 18 | ‘ A young detective remembered that I 'd had something like that stolen , ’ he says . |
| 19 | One slight annoyance came when I tried to procure the sound of a valve amp just on the edge of distortion , like an AC30 or a Vibroverb just going into mild overload . |
| 20 | It was after Mother left that I started thinking like that . " |