Example sentences of "[det] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 2 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 3 | And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking I ca n't believe you 're saying this but I wanted to photocopy it and show it everyone you see |
| 5 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 6 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 7 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 8 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 9 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 10 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 11 | The knocking annoyed me so much that I tried to open the window . |
| 12 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 13 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 14 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 15 | But I had n't got much but I 'd got on my feet . |
| 16 | I was courteous , but did n't encourage conversation too much because I wanted to start detecting before it got too late . |
| 17 | It was much as I had expected . |
| 18 | Although the story was my own , the background was very much as I had remembered it , the characters very much as I had remembered them . |
| 19 | Although the story was my own , the background was very much as I had remembered it , the characters very much as I had remembered them . |
| 20 | I often wondered if he enjoyed using my toothbrush as much as I enjoyed using his . |
| 21 | I mean , Ziggy really said as much as I meant to say all along . |
| 22 | My distended bladder was n't helping matters , but it was n't holding me back as much as I 'd feared , either . |
| 23 | ‘ But by the time I was eighteen , I realised that , as much as I loved studying the past , my greatest joy came from — well , I suppose you 'd describe it as planning things and watching them grow . ’ |
| 24 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 25 | If I 'd done that if I 'd done that be worse you do n't use bad language but he 'd be he 's he 'd be |
| 26 | I mean take the example that Hugh is always using , is that if I wanted to knock a wall through , a hole through that wall and put a door in there with a link in it surely to goodness we |
| 27 | I du n no , I 'd quite like to stay watching the ducks , cos they 're pretty interesting , but I 'm too blummin cold for that and I got to get back home . |
| 28 | so I said something about last week , you see , and I could of , it was my birthday last week and , but er , and I carried on , he said oh go , oh I 'm sorry mum , I 'm sorry about that and I said do n't matter , does n't matter , well I thought , right I 'll let him know |
| 29 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 30 | And er he called me in , I had the cane for that and I had to tell the mess boy . |