Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 2 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 3 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 4 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 5 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 6 | ‘ Luckily , I 'm a big fan so I knew my stuff and , gradually , Madonna softened . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 8 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 9 | Tony said no , Jamie finished with Neil and I got my flowers |
| 10 | We knocked them out of their rhythm and never allowed them to settle or sustain any momentum and I felt their frustrations were beginning to surface . |
| 11 | I nodded , and she closed her eyes and I saw her shoulders slump a little . |
| 12 | From its shelter the Corporal and I stuck our snouts up . |
| 13 | , I 'm on antibiotics cos I got my . |
| 14 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 15 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
| 16 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 17 | After Ann and I abandoned our assault on Canisp , we visited Traligill , and when another snowstorm swept down the mountain , we scuttled to safety in a convenient cave . |
| 18 | We sat round the fire with our leftovers and I answered their questions about the day 's events . |
| 19 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 20 | But so much happened , and it had slipped my mind until I realised your father and my mother must have known each other in the past . |
| 21 | The old man turned the key and I saw my chance . |
| 22 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't slept under a roof since I started my journey . ’ |
| 24 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 25 | I looked at her card as I did my hair . |
| 26 | I remember the shock of fear when I heard her scream and the sickening jolt of pain through my stomach when I saw the angle of her hand to her arm . |
| 27 | He was petrified with fear as I held my knife in front of him . |
| 28 | I was rather disappointed with slip stitch when I bought my first machine . |
| 29 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 30 | I found him talking to Miss Ingram , who looked at me in disgust when I interrupted their conversation . |