Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 2 | On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove . |
| 3 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 4 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 5 | I am often asked what if I had an accident or I collapsed and there was no one around to help . |
| 6 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 8 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 9 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 10 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
| 11 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
| 12 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 13 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 14 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 15 | I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it . |
| 16 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 17 | It was at this point — a year or so into our campaign — that I realized that my efforts were not always appreciated by the other members of the group . |
| 18 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
| 19 | But , just before the reader buries the portfolio matrix once and for all , he or she might remember that I said that my case would not be complete until the end of chapter 8 , where more organizational and behavioural matters will be considered . |
| 20 | Yes , and when the hon. Gentleman reads my remarks , he will see that I said that I am considering disapplying the 1976 |
| 21 | I said well that I said but he 's a lot taller than you Geoff |
| 22 | I said well you play that I said cos I 've played it back . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 24 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 25 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 26 | I , I did say to the County Planning Officer that I thought that whoever had wr written this er these pages have captured the very well er very si the spirit of that an and the er we seem to have a very successful meeting on that |
| 27 | I had survived , not that I thought that I would n't . |
| 28 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 29 | My Lords erm I would only hope that I would be able to do something to my Noble Friend in trying to persuade him that it is n't all that bad erm My Lords I do agree with him though when you I , I think that I 'd be first of all w were to tell him that er not that he would n't be surprised that I thought that his amendment was n't actually necessary , but I do understand his concern , I mean he tries to find his way through the legislation . |
| 30 | One of the reasons why I was in favour of televising the House and Committees was that I thought that it might be a good idea for the public to see Standing Committees , with Ministers doing their mail and others trying to hold up the business . |