Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 2 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 3 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 4 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 5 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 6 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 7 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 8 | Jim was elected to Portsmouth city council in nineteen seventy six as a member for where I understand he tried to play football occasionally until nineteen eighty six . |
| 9 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 10 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 11 | Although I thought I did … |
| 12 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 13 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 14 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
| 15 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ I said , although I knew she had boyfriends . |
| 17 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 18 | I was not dilating and my husband said , ‘ Perhaps you 're not very tolerant of pain ’ which made me feel awful although I realise he meant it kindly . |
| 19 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 20 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 21 | I took this seriously , although I suspect he said it just to make the others laugh . |
| 22 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 23 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
| 24 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 25 | Erm , she died quicker than I think they expected actually , she had cancer of the liver , so I 'm glad she did n't suffer any longer . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't believe Maurin would have killed her any more than I think he killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The first night was better fun than I think I 'd ever had . |
| 28 | ‘ There are no provisions for new ideas , so I keep them posted in my office until I need them , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 30 | ‘ They ran sheep here in those days , so I imagine she did , if only to keep him in socks . ’ |