Example sentences of "i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 2 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 3 | Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling . |
| 4 | Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling . |
| 5 | ‘ … suddenly I became free by some secret action , and now I am so happy I found your letter concerning my person . |
| 6 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 7 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 8 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 9 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 10 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 12 | I became conscious again at about dawn . |
| 13 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 14 | In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime . |
| 15 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 16 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 17 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 18 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 19 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 20 | ‘ I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion in June , but Tyson is the ultimate dream . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service . |
| 22 | On a recent trip to Somerset , I became aware that no one was swimming along what is an impressive and beautiful stretch of coastline . |
| 23 | I became aware that my mother was pushing her way towards me . |
| 24 | During a scene in W C Fields ' The Bank Dick in which men were digging a trench in the road I became aware that my feet felt cold and wet . |
| 25 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 26 | I became paralysed , unable to go down or up . |
| 27 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 28 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 29 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 30 | I became very much more conscious of people , because when you 're a scientist you 're dealing with inanimate matter , unless you 're a biologist . |