Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 2 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 3 | I wanted to find out why you were so keen on the espionage angle-just in case I 'd missed something . ’ |
| 4 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 5 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | I did wonder what er like when I saw Ben I did wonder what he 'd how he 'd think , if I 'd changed and stuff . |
| 7 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
| 8 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 9 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 10 | Again , the two TV programmes I mentioned give plenty of evidence of the power they exercise over the lives of thousands upon thousands . |
| 11 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 12 | it 's all I said no it 's not I said I paid me first er payment I said wrote it down on one of those papers |
| 13 | Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground , |
| 14 | She could have her Mum I heard call her at home to make sure , if anything had happened , so |
| 15 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 16 | So of course I had to take my lead from him , I was only youngster then . |
| 17 | Which I really I went to Amos and I did n't like it but of course I had to stick it . |
| 18 | But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’ |
| 19 | If we heard the Colonel 's car draw up , of course I had to drop my bricks and run . |
| 20 | For example , when we were recording this album at Eel Pie Studios , Pete Townshend 's amp was sitting in a corner , so of course I had to try it ! |
| 21 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
| 22 | Regarding the recent articles concerning the B-29 Superforts , or Washingtons , with the RAF I remembered flying them during my time in the post-war RAFVR . |
| 23 | Yet since leaving Marcus I had let my imagination blow it all up into a Great Romance . |
| 24 | When my jealousy put me upon such a vindictive conduct to you I took a bond for the money I had caused you to be troubled for . |
| 25 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
| 26 | Having just said all that — if the part I played allowed me to change my style I would probably have it all cut off — I 'd love to try a short style . |
| 27 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 28 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I am very happy with the decision I made to sign him . |
| 30 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |