Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 3 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 4 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 5 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 6 | ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May . |
| 7 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 8 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 9 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 10 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 11 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 12 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 13 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 14 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 15 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 16 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 17 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 18 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 20 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 21 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 22 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 23 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 24 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 25 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 26 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 27 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 28 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 29 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 30 | I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway . |