Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 3 | The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me . |
| 4 | I had this idea I had to be civilised , and wait until I 'd obtained spoken as well as physical consent from you — and then spent days regretting it ! |
| 5 | Heathcliff and I started crying loudly and bitterly too . |
| 6 | unfortun unfortunately I mean if I 'd left it where it was erm would have , it would have been better . |
| 7 | I mean if I 'd had the money |
| 8 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 9 | In the Sunday Mail we read that I had said ‘ I am a fascist and proud of it , ’ that I expected ‘ a blood-soaked campaign ’ and that ‘ lots of violence ’ would be ‘ all right with me ’ . |
| 10 | I recall that I had written another broadside in reply to an article in The Student Vanguard by Rayner Heppenstall , then a communist , called ‘ T. S. Eliot : sign of the times ’ . |
| 11 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 12 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 13 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 14 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 16 | Remember that I had left England less than three days before this after an exceptionally grey and dull winter and the bright colours which typify so much Australian knitting were a delight . |
| 17 | And I say I I ca n't , I honestly can not remember what I was doing , I remember the environment one because I got a module written on that erm I remember that I had put in er I want to do first aid and safety in the home sort of thing er , they were three modules that I wanted er , to do . |
| 18 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 19 | Cos they used to have gates with er two or three inches apart , you know and I 'd got ta have a projection . |
| 20 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 21 | He was , I know but I had to turn . |
| 22 | Yeah , I know but I did get those two nice farmhouse chairs |
| 23 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 24 | Er and I , I think I , I should have said if er la you know after I 'd had my own , enjoy your babies while they 're young because they grow up so quickly , whereas before it was a case of , do n't pick them up when they , you know , if they cry leav let them cry . |
| 25 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 26 | It was the sort of thing I 'd have done I suppose if I 'd had the chance . |
| 27 | I suppose if I had gone to school , my life would be completely changed . |
| 28 | I suppose if I had to make the choice , I would sacrifice skiing for the sake of the hills . |
| 29 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 30 | Greenslade and I had hit the floor early . |