Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 2 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 3 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Luckily , I 'm a big fan so I knew my stuff and , gradually , Madonna softened . ’ |
| 5 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 6 | , I 'm on antibiotics cos I got my . |
| 7 | I 'd give this Sir Benson Craig a piece of my mind if I met him , that I would . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 11 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired . |
| 14 | The dark fields in front of the castle were covered in what seemed to be pinpricks of light until I realised they were men carrying torches , streaming towards the main gate . |
| 15 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 16 | Half of them in self-defence because I found myself so attracted to you . |
| 17 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 18 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 19 | I was fond of that duvet because I thought it was hers . |
| 20 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 21 | And I thought they were going to the meeting er on Friday because I knew they were both off |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't slept under a roof since I started my journey . ’ |
| 23 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 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 could n't make up my mind whether I wanted it or not , and then I just panicked . ’ ) |
| 26 | ‘ Call The Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself ’ ( Nettwerk ) |
| 27 | ‘ Call The Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself ’ ( Nettwerk ) |
| 28 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 29 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | Cos I come in on the Friday after I picked her up from school . |