Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 2 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 3 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
| 4 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
| 5 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 7 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 8 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 9 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 11 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 12 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |
| 13 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 14 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 15 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 16 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 17 | I hated the hoop of diamonds which , although I had washed it , looked somehow dirty . |
| 18 | I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him . |
| 19 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 20 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 21 | Although I managed to flog my tickets to a couple of touts , this month 's expenditure still leaves 40 quid unaccounted for . |
| 22 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 23 | Although I 'd had me doubts before , I will admit . |
| 24 | Although I tried to get her interested in hobbies , she just was n't interested so . |
| 25 | I think that secretly I wanted to get pregnant , although I tried to kid myself I did n't . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 27 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 28 | Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground . |
| 29 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 30 | Although I did hear he had a lad or two with him . |