Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became out-of-hand and I had to stop Rose , for after all Miss Ironside was my guest and she was getting very angry and upset . |
| 2 | And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio . |
| 3 | I intend to make animal welfare one of my priorities in th United Kingdom presidency , as I made clear when I wrote to hon. Members on 27 February . |
| 4 | Nigel became despondent but I did n't . |
| 5 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 6 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 7 | It got broken when I dropped everything last night . |
| 8 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 9 | I used , I used yellow that I 'd bought |
| 10 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 11 | I cursed , crept towards the front hall , then stopped dead as I heard voices . |
| 12 | ‘ They became alarmed because I had access to security force files of theirs , and all security force personnel through the central computer if I wished . |
| 13 | Something got lost and I du n no what ? |
| 14 | One old lady sitting upright , prim and wearing round National Health Service glasses , became agitated as I approached her chair . |
| 15 | Oliver seemed upset when I told him . |
| 16 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 17 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 18 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 19 | The sense was neither here nor there , but oh the words came easy and I breathed again and ate again . |
| 20 | They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant . |
| 21 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 22 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 23 | She seemed thrilled when I told her . |
| 24 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 25 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 26 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 27 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 28 | ‘ He has suggested , though , that the two practices should merge , and seemed amazed when I turned down the idea . |
| 29 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |
| 30 | I am not a small man , nor am I a weakling , yet the thin Sweetman seemed unconcerned as I jumped down into the cockpit . |