Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 2 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 3 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 4 | I 'd just like to make this perfectly clear that I did write a draft for work and leisure . |
| 5 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 6 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 7 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 8 | The reaction of spectators was less marked than I had expected . |
| 9 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 10 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 11 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 12 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 13 | The bail arm button at the front is responsive and I found gets better with use . |
| 14 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 15 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 16 | The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple . |
| 17 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 18 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 19 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 20 | I was we were playing this and erm they were really good because they 'd obviously played before and I could n't and they just kept it was really funny cos I kept getting like two and getting like two thousand or whatever and I want to do it really well , I 'm playing them again but they would n't so it |
| 21 | Its funny cos I decided to watch the fa youth cup final from last year on friday … coincidence or what . |
| 22 | ‘ My father was German and I wanted to go out there to rebuild my life , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 24 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 25 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 26 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 27 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 28 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 29 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 30 | So a friend was embarrassed when I wanted to examine every object his family had made : the weathered pitchforks crafted from branching joints of trees ; strong rope twisted from straw ; bundles of sesame-seed stalks used as firewood after the seeds had been eaten ; hand-woven winnowing baskets , and heavy clay pots for keeping water cool in hot summers . |