Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 2 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 3 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 4 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 5 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 6 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 7 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 8 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he would kill her if I did n't hand over the money and I believed him . |
| 10 | He said well actually I have got the money because I borrowed it . |
| 11 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 13 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 14 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 15 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 16 | The chairman and I demonstrated what needed to be done and how we hoped to fund the re-equipment of polyester , when we had invested what was necessary from the nylon cash flow . |
| 17 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 18 | Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday . |
| 19 | My mother and I were in the kitchen when I saw him and involuntarily said , ‘ My God , he looks as though he 's … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No , I had some work to do in the kitchen and I left them here . ’ |
| 21 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 22 | I tasted the storm before I saw it . |
| 23 | But luck , the storm and I introduced him to the Bomb , and that settled his game . |
| 24 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 25 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 26 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 27 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 28 | I 've seen the play and I thought it was quite like a farce . |
| 29 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 30 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |