Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 2 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 3 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 4 | Er Sadly , although I sent you a letter with suggestions for discussion I forgot to keep a copy of it for myself . |
| 5 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 6 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 7 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 8 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 9 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 10 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 11 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 12 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 13 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 14 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 15 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 16 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 17 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 18 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 19 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 20 | Having read what the Queen 's Speech says on matters of foreign policy , I must say that I found it a bit of a mish-mash . |
| 21 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 22 | You had a death in the family which I could understand , so I lent you a book , which you have n't returned . |
| 23 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 24 | I asked her where she lived and she said Tower Hamlets , so I offered her a lift in the van . |
| 25 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 26 | What a relief it was when a couple of hundred other leeds supporters started going crazy , so I thought what the hell and joined in . |
| 27 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 28 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 29 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 30 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |