Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 2 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 3 | I suddenly understood , or thought I understood it all . |
| 4 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |
| 5 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 6 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 7 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 8 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 9 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 10 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 11 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 12 | In the pause that followed I had to stifle a feeling of panic . |
| 13 | In the silence that followed I waited for him to continue . |
| 14 | Over the weeks that followed I noticed more of them . |
| 15 | My father used the carrot as well as the stick , of course , and that meant I got everything I wanted , clothes , jewellery , perfume . |
| 16 | To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’ |
| 17 | So that meant I had to call the police , always assuming that the local Neighbourhood Watch had n't . |
| 18 | So that meant I had to get the part of the , the top bit of the cup , thread it through the hoo , the hoop and then tie it in a knot ! |
| 19 | The thing that kept me glued to the TV was the gorgeous Jennifer Capriati with her magnificent looks , great personality and brilliant tennis . |
| 20 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 21 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 22 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 23 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 24 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 25 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 26 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 29 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 30 | No , she co come and told me did you ask Emma out ? |