Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |
| 2 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 3 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 4 | It will keep for a while , at least until I have recorded a little visit I made after I finished writing my life of Elsie and the episode concerning the Butcher . |
| 5 | One of the earliest jottings I made when I began to keep a crime-writing notebook concerned just this business of plot . |
| 6 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 7 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 8 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 9 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 10 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 11 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 12 | As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed . |
| 13 | Er anyway as I say er I realized when I 'd started talking er that I was digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself so I er I climbed out of it and and made an exit . |
| 14 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 15 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 16 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 17 | Towards the end of the war I realised that I had had both friends and enemies at Southern Command . |
| 18 | ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued . |
| 19 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 20 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 21 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 22 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 23 | And I 'll , and I passed and I need to get my medals and all that . |
| 24 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 25 | By the end of ‘ Great Expectations ’ I found that I had enjoyed the book and had found it thought provoking and interesting . |
| 26 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 27 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 28 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 29 | The formalities took some weeks , but by the end of July 1939 , I learnt that I had got the job . |
| 30 | Moving outside to fit the new cylinder , I noticed that I had dropped the tiny rubber washer that fitted between the cylinder and stove . |