Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made up me mind |
| 2 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 3 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 4 | Aided by nostalgia , I made up my mind , there and then , to return to Nigeria on foot . |
| 5 | It was a great disappointment but I made up my mind there and then that it would be different next term . |
| 6 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I made up my mind to say yes if he did , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday . |
| 9 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 10 | So , I made up my mind from then : ‘ right , I 'll have to stay with the black guys 'cause I am black . ’ |
| 11 | I made up my mind then that next time I had a baby I would love it . |
| 12 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 13 | But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over . |
| 14 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
| 16 | As a first step to achieving it I made up my mind , even before I went to Eton , to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 17 | I made up my mind to broach the issue over lunch . |
| 18 | As the sun began to set behind the Qutab Minar , I made up my mind to explore sometime soon what was once the most enormous complex of fortifications in all Islam . |
| 19 | So I made up my stories . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |
| 21 | ‘ I made up my mind , collected them and went straight down . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , you are ; and now let me tell you something : years ago I made up my mind never to marry a woman older than myself . |
| 23 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 24 | I stammered out my history , my eyes occasionally wandering to a winter view of rooftops , an opaque winter sky behind his head . |
| 25 | I had wrapped the vase carefully in newspaper and put it in a string bag , which I slung over my shoulder . |
| 26 | I passed over my handkerchief . |
| 27 | ‘ The second killer , the one who murdered the girl , I checked out his MO because that sounded familiar , too . ’ |
| 28 | I got up her big , loose-footed gunter lugsail , and , as always , marvelled at the sturdy simplicity of her rig . |
| 29 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 30 | I got off my bicycle and stood there in Bromley High Street , next to the plaque that said ‘ H. G. Wells was born here ’ . |