Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 4 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 5 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 6 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 7 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 8 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 13 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 14 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The problems came when I started to find myself more and more entrenched in the business side of things , and unable to actually design stuff like before . |
| 16 | And I 'll , and I passed and I need to get my medals and all that . |
| 17 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 18 | As we walked towards an ancient Volkswagen she took my arm and rested too heavily upon it and asked if I 'd brought her anything from London . |
| 19 | You asked if I 'd got it that 's how I got it , knew what it was |
| 20 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 21 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 22 | ‘ Only because I could n't work out how you were doing it , ’ I said , and she laughed some more and asked if I wanted to join her friends . |
| 23 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 24 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 25 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 26 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 27 | And after we had met again , he observed that I had achieved what he called ‘ poise ’ . |
| 28 | Then , in the same tone , in fact I decided that I want to marry you . |
| 29 | ‘ I sat on my bed and he sat by the door and we talked and I tried to persuade him to use his money to educate himself and he said he would but I did n't feel convinced . ’ |
| 30 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |