Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll never get that ’ was the response that I got , ‘ You had better start with us ’ . |
| 2 | We had sex in the park and I felt a tremendous nausea for what I had done . |
| 3 | And I thought to myself no I 'm not gon na go out , I did start to go out the park and I thought no . |
| 4 | I shall take great pleasure in saying to those to whom the hon. Gentleman wishes me to speak — here comes the opportunity that I mentioned earlier — that , as the chairman of Ford in Britain observed yesterday , Labour 's economic policies would prove suicidal for our economy . |
| 5 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 6 | I happened upon the tannery when I walked east along the coast towards the beginning of the Akrotiri peninsula . |
| 7 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 8 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 9 | I think it 's more to the point cos what I was doing at Christmas was n't really exploring the attitudes as I wanted |
| 10 | I tried to pull the canopy back but it was impossible against the dive so I flattened out and throttled back . |
| 11 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 12 | Your reception was not courteous , but the Prince and I had other matters to discuss . |
| 13 | It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced . |
| 14 | You know , I 'd done the section manager part-time , I 've done the Saturday 's and Sunday 's , I 've done the share , the fair share of shoving the shit when I had to erm , but , I think you can get a lot of average streams , there is a lot of potential there for one to become a very valued member of staff . |
| 15 | He said oh dear that really puts us in the shit and I said er well I 'm not . |
| 16 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 17 | Richard wanted me to book thirty shows in the clubs and I did . |
| 18 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 19 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 20 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 21 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 22 | Oh it was when we were gon na go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no , I really can not be bothered , it 's just pouring down with rain , had |
| 23 | There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a |
| 24 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 25 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 26 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 27 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 28 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 29 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 30 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |