Example sentences of "[vb past] i [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 2 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 3 | When I arrived at the club , I found I was billed ( in coloured chalk ) as Marti Caine . |
| 4 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 5 | I believed I was instructed , and faithfully I obeyed . |
| 6 | After a further telephone interview — this time with myself as the interviewee — for the Radio Times , it seemed I was finished . |
| 7 | The doctor has said to me that since she came I 'm changed completely . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , I completely forgot I was attached to the table — all the lunch things fell off , the wine spilt and the glasses shattered . |
| 9 | Soon after we arrived I was interrogated about my parents and our home life . |
| 10 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time my friend arrived I was exhausted and in a foul mood and so was Graeme . |
| 12 | Melanie already knew I was popular with the fair sex , but when she discovered I was tipped for the top in my career as well she decided it might be a good idea to marry me . ’ |
| 13 | He raged : ‘ I 'm hurt and angry that after five years here I heard I was sacked on my car radio . ’ |
| 14 | He talked rather obsessively about those times , and while he talked I was overwhelmed by feelings of desolation : this no man 's land made me uneasy . |
| 15 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 16 | ‘ Nature decided I was meant for hats very early on . ’ |
| 17 | Went I 'm caught in the moment . |
| 18 | That meant I was transferred to the grammar school at Bideford , where I stayed until I took my " O " levels in the first year the system was inaugurated . |
| 19 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 20 | From that moment , I felt I was accepted , and set to work to learn as much as I could , and make as many friends as possible . |
| 21 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 22 | At the same time I felt I was owed an explanation . |
| 23 | I felt I was wasted . |
| 24 | It still did n't hit me that within hours we would have a baby : I vaguely felt I was immersed in some surreal soap-dream that constantly receded back into itself . |
| 25 | I honestly felt I was finished . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There have been times when I felt I was overlooked and that has left me desperately disappointed , ’ said the player who will tonight win his tenth cap . |
| 27 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 28 | Lot number twenty six Lot number twenty six , the grey jade pendant there 's the grey jade pendant showing Lot twenty six for thirty pounds at thirty , thirty five , forty , forty five , fifty for you sir , thank you , five sixty , sixty five seventy offered I 'm bid seventy in the centre now and selling for seventy , seventy five to my right eighty pounds eighty five eighty five , the lady 's offer , sir at eighty five pounds , any more at eight five pounds . |
| 29 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 30 | Lot number thirty nine thirty nine is the coal holder there it is seventy pounds for this , at seventy , seventy five , eighty pounds at eighty pounds at eighty pounds any more at eighty only , at eighty , eighty five , ninety pounds , ninety five , a hundred pounds , and ten , twenty , one thirty offered I 'm offered one thirty on my left and selling for one hundred and thirty pou one forty standing one fifty one sixty one seventy going on sir ? |