Example sentences of "i [vb past] i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 2 | I realised I could race them keeping them and me fit . |
| 3 | I realised I could help myself and did n't have to be this fat , unhappy child , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 5 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 6 | But against all my expectations , the longer he kept away , the more I found I could hack it . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 8 | When we got married I promised I 'd give you everything you want and so I will . |
| 9 | But just because I promised I 'd make you a rich widow , do n't think you 're going to get rid of me yet . |
| 10 | My next-door neighbour agreed to take her , but I promised I 'd do my best to get back in time so that I could take her myself . ’ |
| 11 | how tight Mike was going to be with you know having to look after Paul and all the rest of it I promised I 'd take him to Snetterton market and he could have , he was going to buy some records . |
| 12 | I believed I could do it . |
| 13 | I noticed I could see my breath . |
| 14 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |
| 15 | I sensed I would hear his story eventually . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , ’ said Jake , ‘ I swore I 'd get him one day — I strung 'im up yon old oak and lit a bonfire under 'im . ’ |
| 17 | Before leaving Dublin , I decided I ought to see something of County Louth . |
| 18 | I decided I 'd make him laugh , so the house was shaped like a penis . |
| 19 | Then , over breakfast , I decided I 'd keep it to myself . |
| 20 | I decided I should try them at a rave . |
| 21 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 22 | I felt I 'd let everyone down ) |
| 23 | But I felt I 'd let him down . |
| 24 | I felt I should warn you . ’ |
| 25 | I felt I should include them in the list if only so that you could see the limited choice at present available . |
| 26 | I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt I could do it better with myself . |
| 28 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 29 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 30 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |