Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked where I should send the woman I was told to contact the neurosurgical bed manager , who would tell me which ward to send her to . |
| 2 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 3 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 4 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 5 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 8 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 10 | I asked how it happened . |
| 11 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 12 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 13 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 14 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 15 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 16 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 17 | Yes , I could tell from Aunt Nessy 's breathing that she would not recover consciousness ; nevertheless , before I crept out I did kiss her , just in case some little part of her , still aware , should feel it . |
| 18 | When I straightened up I heard a slight sound behind me . |
| 19 | Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds . |
| 20 | I realised later it was only a brotherly peck on the cheek , but for one black moment I was back in the past … |
| 21 | I realised why I was wrong about good theatre , about how it can enthrall in a way cinema and television rarely does . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Not since I realised how it was reared , think of shutting out the daylight all their lives . ’ |
| 24 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
| 25 | If I lived there I mean and bought a house . |
| 26 | Oh , all the important people were Quaker families when I lived there you see ? |
| 27 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 28 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 29 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |
| 30 | When I got closer I found it to be empty and forgotten ; cattle grazed up to its outer walls , its projecting porch was thick with ivy , its gardens with nettles . |