Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 2 | Again , the two TV programmes I mentioned give plenty of evidence of the power they exercise over the lives of thousands upon thousands . |
| 3 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 4 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 5 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 6 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 7 | So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death . |
| 8 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 9 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 10 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 11 | What was more , the couple of times I had rung my antenatal teacher for reassurance in late pregnancy after a brief stay in hospital had been free too . |
| 12 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 13 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 14 | Then he handed the box over , saying , ‘ Here 's the crocks I promised to lend your wife … and some extra food . |
| 15 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 16 | An idealist all the days I had known him , we had been very close . |
| 17 | Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank . |
| 18 | ‘ So I thought bugger this for a lark and got rid of them , and the next couple of days I tried to ring you , but … ’ |
| 19 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 20 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 21 | I was carried away by his reminiscences and anecdotes , his observations on natural history and his descriptions of places I had visited myself . |
| 22 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 23 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 24 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
| 25 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 26 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 27 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 28 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |
| 29 | Oh it 's summat about erm yeah it is you know erm where you vote for them union things I meant to ask you if they 'd got a stamp |
| 30 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |