Example sentences of "and [subord] i [vb past] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not like your arrogance and your questions , and if I had my way I would arrange an accident or have you thrown into some deep dungeon until everyone had forgotten about you ! ’ |
| 2 | An " heir " indeed , Miss Gristy , yes , an heir to base lies and fornication , and if I had my way you would be joint heirs to a pile of dry wood too , together with flint , steel and a box of tinder ! " |
| 3 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 4 | And if I had my way , they would have |
| 5 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because the Emperor would have put me in prison if I 'd have stayed , and because I needed my half-pay . ’ |
| 7 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 8 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
| 9 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 10 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 11 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 12 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 13 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 14 | I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages . |
| 15 | On being introduced , and when I repeated my name , he mused , " Mahaddie … |
| 16 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 17 | Thus most sentences begin with a reference , actual or implied , to the first-person narrator : " On my right hand … " ( 1 ) , " To the left … " ( 2 ) , " And when I turned my h.a … ( 3 ) , " My eye followed … " ( 6 ) , " And then I was left alone … " ( 7 ) . |
| 18 | We wanted to marry but circumstances did n't permit , and when I lost my job I decided to leave . |
| 19 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 20 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |
| 21 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 22 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 23 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 24 | And as I lay my eyes in wonder |
| 25 | And as I moved my foot about , like this , trying to find the next rung , I began to realize things were n't quite right . |
| 26 | The pegs were plentiful , but F not needed for a pull , and as I swept my feet from left to right across the wall on little orange nubbins and small edges below good fingerlocks , in a thin , horizontal crack , I wished it could go on and on . |