Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 2 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 3 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 4 | As soon as he found out I knew about cameras and all that , he realised I could make myself useful round the studio , so I sort of moved in . |
| 5 | I realised I could race them keeping them and me fit . |
| 6 | I realised I could help myself and did n't have to be this fat , unhappy child , ’ she says . |
| 7 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 8 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 9 | " Whatever it cost I would face it . " |
| 10 | When we got married I promised I 'd give you everything you want and so I will . |
| 11 | But just because I promised I 'd make you a rich widow , do n't think you 're going to get rid of me yet . |
| 12 | My next-door neighbour agreed to take her , but I promised I 'd do my best to get back in time so that I could take her myself . ’ |
| 13 | how tight Mike was going to be with you know having to look after Paul and all the rest of it I promised I 'd take him to Snetterton market and he could have , he was going to buy some records . |
| 14 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 15 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 17 | I even found I could hold her head and pet her while she threw up . |
| 18 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 19 | But against all my expectations , the longer he kept away , the more I found I could hack it . |
| 20 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 21 | I believed I could do it . |
| 22 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 23 | I never believed I could wish anyone dead , but last night changed all that . |
| 24 | It seemed I could learn nothing of happiness from Lili unless I could first discover her secret . |
| 25 | No doubt M. Chaillot agreed to my demand only because he imagined I would regard his acceptance of it as an incentive to call again . |
| 26 | Nigel felt he 'd like to stay in the area , and I , who always imagined I 'd end my days in Brighton , yielded . |
| 27 | ‘ But I never imagined I 'd meet anyone like Alison . ’ |
| 28 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 29 | I noticed I could see my breath . |
| 30 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |