Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first everyone had been smiling , thinking how right I looked holding the baby . |
| 2 | Luckily I managed to grab the abseil rope firmly enough with both hands to stop ) . |
| 3 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 4 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 5 | Suddenly I wanted to hear the sound of human voices and to feel the warmth and comfort of loved ones . |
| 6 | ‘ If only I 'd recognized the signs of Bubbleshake contamination when I met him . |
| 7 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 8 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 9 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 10 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to see the windows again . |
| 12 | Perhaps I tried to force the pace . |
| 13 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 14 | Obviously I enjoyed having the opportunity to watch any nesting birds so close at hand — I could reach out of my bedroom window , when Mum was n't around , and feel right inside the nest — but many of the neighbours looked on the house martins as pests who infested their property and made a mess . |
| 15 | So obviously I kept drinking the water and the next day , on the Sunday , the pain was so bad we called the doctor again and he found out I was in labour and he sent me to the hospital and they found out not until the Thursday that it was actually the cryptosporidium that had caused it . |
| 16 | So I went to see the latest one , Mrs Houston she was called . |
| 17 | So I went to take the call in some confusion — confusion made worse by haste when Alexander told me it was the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
| 19 | So I had to act the tortured , self-blaming child , and Eric had to comfort me while my father brooded . |
| 20 | So I had to arrange the funeral and so on . |
| 21 | If so I had fulfilled the whole gospel of Darwinism ’ . |
| 22 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 23 | And so I had to drag the coal scuttle up there , I was faced with that , and chop the sticks , which I 'd never done before . |
| 24 | So I had to make the speech best as I could and it went down all right I think . |
| 25 | One for only ninety nine P , so I had to make the money up they got |
| 26 | I still had another two masterclasses to play in , and so I had to practise the other two pieces which I would play . |
| 27 | Yeah but , it was only on the bottoms of some of them so I said cut the bits off and er , I shut the door to , and Bill said , why are you shutting the door ? |
| 28 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 29 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 30 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |