Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It became out-of-hand and I had to stop Rose , for after all Miss Ironside was my guest and she was getting very angry and upset .
2 Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife .
3 I used , I used yellow that I 'd bought
4 We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room .
5 They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant .
6 And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship .
7 FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too
8 Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river .
9 Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians .
10 ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again .
11 I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life .
12 I felt numb but I had to get back to his stable three miles away and tie him up .
13 I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain .
14 My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass .
15 After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence .
16 As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay .
17 I felt terrified but I managed to control myself .
18 The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not .
19 It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay .
20 The police sounded surprised that I had bothered to call them , and I walked back to the boatyard feeling strangely foolish .
21 Apart from what I felt , it seemed that my brain became dulled when I stopped moving .
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