Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 2 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 3 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 4 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 5 | And I was in last week both Saturday 's before I came here , and we went through we 'd achieved all targets |
| 6 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 8 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 9 | He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’ |
| 10 | There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up . |
| 11 | The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference . |
| 12 | My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me . |
| 13 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 14 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
| 15 | As trite as it sounds , I had forgotten what greenness was until I saw those palms . |
| 16 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 17 | What would my attitude be if I had a difficult or long journey to work ? |
| 18 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 19 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 20 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 21 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 22 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 23 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 24 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 25 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 26 | My answer to that long intervention is that I did not say that a payroll tax was the same as the selective employment tax . |
| 27 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 29 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 30 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |