Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 2 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 3 | None of the women in the school kitchen where I worked went to union meetings . |
| 4 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 5 | I went by the Galerie de Diane and then down the stairs leading to the basement in the Pavillon de Flore where I followed the underground passage , badly lit — but where were the kitchens ? |
| 6 | I went along to the dining car where I found that Zak had already positioned some of the actors at the tables for the cocktail-hour double-length scene . |
| 7 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 8 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 9 | Suddenly the Yeti turned up in the men 's department where I worked . |
| 10 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 11 | I first met her when she began coming to Althorp and into the Northampton hairdressing salon where I worked . |
| 12 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 13 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 14 | First stop was Stornoway where Ewen Munro , the Manager , was on hand to relieve me of an important part of my luggage , The Crofter of the Year Cup , which I was to present in Stornoway at a Dinner on the Friday once I had returned from my more distant island travels . |
| 15 | Just taking aye , just songs that I liked and I just er take them off tapes and , and records , and I just write them down , |
| 16 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 17 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 18 | And the Aussie beamed : ‘ Leigh are a lot better side than I thought and there is a great deal more football in the team than I was led to believe . ’ |
| 19 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |
| 20 | It was in this splendid fifteenth-century monument to the high architectural taste of the Catholic sovereigns that I read a message written by a fifteenth-century schoolboy on his classroom wall : Aquí supo lo que es bueno , y lo que es malo , / Lo que es dulce , y lo que es amaro ( Here I had knowledge of what is good , and of what is bad , / Of what is sweet , and of what is bitter ) . |
| 21 | His absolute conviction at that time , reinforced by an extraordinary personal charm and magnetism gave me just the right insight and guidance that I needed . |
| 22 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 23 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 24 | Once again i caught on the three methods that I thought would work on the day and to say the least I was more than confident of getting good points . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The most expensive ingredient that I used was fresh tomatoes . |
| 27 | I thought you were , right none of us were there , the feedback that I got was that |
| 28 | Fiona watched his retreating back with a regret neither Erica nor I shared . |
| 29 | He describes , as I did , the lack of access between the interiors of modules , but accepts the view of consciousness that I associated with Minsky 's views on heterarchy : that , roughly speaking , sometimes one module would be conscious and sometimes another , depending on circumstances : |
| 30 | I affected more fear than I felt . |