Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 2 | this is what we found cos I said , oh |
| 3 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 4 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |
| 5 | You have n't — ’ I stopped before I said something he might take exception to . |
| 6 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 7 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 8 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 10 | During the next year I completed my book , and all our hearts rose when I received a request from Mr William Ross 's office to see the manuscript . |
| 11 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 12 | Strange the tricks that life plays , I mused as I drove home , popping the tape of madrigals into the player . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 14 | ’ Do n't take the girls ' minds off their tidying up , ’ I joked as I left . |
| 15 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 16 | She never moved as I nipped hard and winkled out the offending obstruction . |
| 17 | But what I found when I went was I had to go through the psychiatrist to find this group cos it was n't available . |
| 18 | I found when I got involved in my relationship with Angus in 1970 there was a real sort of tension . |
| 19 | The only thing that was quite extraordinary was what I found when I got as far as the back premises . |
| 20 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 21 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 22 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 23 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 24 | ‘ There 's a fantastic-looking man called Rob English whom I found when I trod on his toe in a shop in Brighton , ’ says Sarah . |
| 25 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 26 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 27 | But we all change , and I changed when I saw you . |
| 28 | I think we found as I say there are work demanding which is probably the nineteen nineties are an increasingly well educated , skilled and flexible workforce responsible for it 's services policy and safety environment , the strategy in programmes for those page twenty one . |
| 29 | My heart sank as I looked around . |
| 30 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |