Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I was disappointed with how I handled and managed certain situations , but I know I 've learned from that and I 'm better for it . ’ |
| 3 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 4 | And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club . |
| 5 | See when I went and defrost it I shut that off and er opened this |
| 6 | When John Clifford , who began his working life in a mill , wrote home after preaching in New York , he told his family that , ‘ Mr J. D. Rockefeller came and spoke to me , thanked me , and said he would like to take hold of my skirts when I ascended and go up with me . |
| 7 | And it made everybody was getting shifted down to , so I did n't fancy working down there , we 'd heard that much about it so that 's when I left and went to Walkers . |
| 8 | After all this time , when I begged and begged you to cut down , why suddenly say you 're going to stop ? ’ |
| 9 | Yes I thought you know when I retired and left Cambridge I ought to bring that with me you see |
| 10 | Far below , on the winter 's day when I stood and watched , the Aleksandr Ulyanov — a 30,000-ton general freighter — was grinding slowly northbound , back to the Atlantic , back to Mother Russia ; a comfortable-looking , rust-stained Greek liner called the Corfu Reefer had passed heading south . |
| 11 | I tried to interest both David and Hermione in coming up to Scotland where I lived and to play , would you believe , in ‘ Puss in Boots ’ . |
| 12 | First thing , I went to the boarding-house where I lived and put on my suit . |
| 13 | I would like to know where I gained and lost marks |
| 14 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 15 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 16 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |