Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I climbed , I tried to remember if I had shut the Wheel Room door . |
| 2 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 3 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 4 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 5 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 6 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 7 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 8 | Had you phoned well I did n't know if you 'd phoned after I 'd rung you , or before I 'd rung you . |
| 9 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 10 | And scared again , like I 'd felt when I 'd woken before . |
| 11 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 12 | Yes cos we ah yeah yesterday after you 'd finished after I 'd finished tried to feed him . |
| 13 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 14 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 15 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 16 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 17 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 18 | ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement . |
| 19 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 20 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 21 | Lathered up , started to shave when I come to clean it there were n't a bloody blade in the bastards had pinched it . |
| 22 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 23 | I went running and I went running and I the relief of sitting down on that toilet and going you know you know when your completely busting and then it 's the relief |
| 24 | And er I I think they they were , most of them went to jail and I think did , but when he came down here he , he beat . |
| 25 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 26 | And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her . |
| 27 | But I liked serving and I liked to feel that I was able to have sold somebody something . |
| 28 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 29 | Well I did stop because I tried to avoid him . |
| 30 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |