Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the throng around me rippled and shifted , I had seen the occupants of two other , larger tables . |
| 2 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 3 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 4 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 5 | I applied and got the details but never bothered sending off the application form because I did n't think I was capable of doing what was asked . |
| 6 | I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’ |
| 7 | Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns . |
| 8 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 9 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 10 | Again in January I revealed that press tycoon Conrad Black was to marry . |
| 11 | I GAZED AND GAZED , BUT LITTLE THOUGHT |
| 12 | ‘ I made that mistake once , but you should widen your interests , cut down on the travel and delegate more , ’ she told him , her expression serious . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , ’ says Howard , smiling to himself , on the side of his face away from her , in case she opens her eyes , ‘ I made that bit up . |
| 14 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 15 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
| 16 | I liked your ideas ; I made that clear before , did n't I ? |
| 17 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 18 | That was the point I made when responding to the intervention of the hon. Member for Swansea , East , when I mentioned section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 19 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 20 | Then I fainted and fell to the floor . |
| 21 | It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house . |
| 22 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 23 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 24 | I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft . |
| 25 | I chewed betel with the barefoot skipper in his wheel-house until , as the old tub began to roll in the outside channel , I realised that had been a mistake . |
| 26 | No , he 's gone to a play at the college and a yeah I was er like when I realised that had come on I thought does he know ? |
| 27 | I argued and pleaded … |
| 28 | I argued and complained , and refused fifty times , but in the end he forced me to agree . |
| 29 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 30 | Did n't give a shit whether I lived or died . ’ |