Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 4 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 5 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 6 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 7 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 8 | I came because I regard the debate as important . |
| 9 | ‘ I came because I need the money . ’ |
| 10 | The rain came as I reached the drive of the hotel , set amongst trees , and I ventured along it in search of shelter . |
| 11 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 12 | ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings . |
| 13 | The point is that this is where Camus lived and I made the effort to find my way here . |
| 14 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 15 | The door opened and I covered the terrible state of my face with hair . |
| 16 | We 'll never know what really happened but I think the KGB got what they wanted — the English couple and their car . |
| 17 | My right hand shook as I remembered the sudden fear of seeing the crimson tracer flick up from the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ Quite simple really , ’ Daphne replied when I put the same question to her that evening . |
| 19 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 20 | So I 've , cut it off stuck that I took the |
| 21 | ’ He grinned and I caught the mockery in his voice . |
| 22 | Here are two more facts to think about , discovered since I wrote the article . |
| 23 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 24 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 25 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | We talked until I missed the last train . |
| 27 | As we flew closer and lower they looked up and waved and I recognized the pathetic twisted wreckage of T for Tommy . |
| 28 | But I persisted because I loved the sound of the old organ . |
| 29 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 30 | I will certainly reiterate fully the message that I delivered when I visited the north-west a few days ago . |