Example sentences of "this [vb past] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh . |
| 2 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 3 | An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey . |
| 4 | My first inkling of this came when I phoned Karen shortly after the funeral . |
| 5 | He said : I am concerned that an incident like this happened but I am confident that our security measures worked well |
| 6 | This happened when I fell foul of former Tatler Editor Tina Brown . |
| 7 | I liked her , we were starting to go out , then all this happened and I never saw her again . |
| 8 | This meant that I could n't lead my own life at all ; when I complained about this to my husband he laughed it off . |
| 9 | Depressingly , this meant that I was within sight , sound and smell of their superior rations , bacon-burgers , goulash , and bolognese . |
| 10 | This meant that I walked further than recorded . |
| 11 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
| 12 | All this meant that I no longer felt personally responsible for separatism . |
| 13 | This meant that I had , from the beginning , to spend a lot of time with my family while Dawn was learning to sit on my fist . |
| 14 | This meant that I was free to respond to the effects that developed as I worked and I got a feel both for the subject and the pastels I was using . |
| 15 | This meant that I got into the Library . |
| 16 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 17 | I heard no more on the subject ; and if this meant that I had failed to persuade Eliot to devote precious time to reading the book , I was more relieved than otherwise . |
| 18 | And all this meant that I could n't wait to leave home . |
| 19 | This lasted until I caught pneumonia in 1985 . |