Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 2 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 3 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 4 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 5 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 6 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 7 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 9 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 10 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 11 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 12 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |