Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 2 | Yes , I want to leave early tomorrow , because I 'm , I 'm not going to rush for a train , I do n't want to be caught thinking oh the last train to Stow Market goes at four o'clock and I 've got to run for it I got to be prepared to miss the train . |
| 3 | ‘ I got to be Scottish under-15 champion . |
| 4 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 5 | I got to be careful — cars just suddenly come out from nowhere and it 's easy to have an accident . |
| 6 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 7 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 8 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 9 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 10 | I expected to be terrified of the pain and I was worried that if anything went wrong I would n't be able to cope . |
| 11 | I tried to be quiet , ’ she said , knowing she was babbling but unable to prevent it . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 13 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 14 | I tried to be bitter but I could n't . |
| 15 | I tried to be blind , but I could not . |
| 16 | Granted I was a little afraid , I tried to be secret . |
| 17 | Immediately , I pretended to be asleep , knowing that if she uttered a sound I would have to smother her with my jacket . |
| 18 | And I , er and I pretended to be incapable and I , and said I would like someone to go and help me do shopping , home health service would have , come along . |
| 19 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 20 | I pretended to be glad to see him , though my first thought was that Gill and I would n't be alone on the train back to Victoria . |
| 21 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 22 | I was delighted to find her again , but I pretended to be angry to punish her . |
| 23 | Although our debate today will continue until 2 am , there is a long list of hon. Members who wish to speak and I promised to be brief . |
| 24 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 25 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 26 | True , I seemed to be alive and intact . |
| 27 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 28 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 29 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I learnt to be assertive , how to put together a CV and how to market myself . |