Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 2 | Nina did n't have any family so I suppose I became her ‘ son ’ . |
| 3 | " Your aunt advertised part of her house to rent — I became her tenant . |
| 4 | I do n't know why I became her friend , but I do know that we got on very well , + rarely ‘ fell out ’ . |
| 5 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps because I was hot-tempered at times , I became what used to be called a ‘ natural ’ as a boxer . |
| 7 | And er then , of course , when I was about eighteen , er I became what is what be what was called as an improver . |
| 8 | To this he calmly replied , with more charity than I deserved : ‘ Well , you should have seen what I was like before I became one ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was n't a smasher when I started , I became one , ’ observes Miss Stetson . |
| 10 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 11 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 12 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 13 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 14 | I asked myself . |
| 15 | I asked myself and returned to folding the froth into the coffee . |
| 16 | As I accelerated my pace I asked myself what I was doing here , and I did n't know the answer . |
| 17 | ‘ It was then I asked myself , ‘ Is this all worth it ? ’ ’ |
| 18 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 19 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 20 | So I asked myself why less sensitive tackle should be more successful than anything else . |
| 21 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 22 | What indeed , I asked myself . |
| 23 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 24 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 25 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 26 | I asked myself what chance was there … within the next year or two of that feeling being so changed that the country would give a mandate for rearmament ? |
| 27 | What sort of woman , I asked myself , drops into a jeweller 's for a brooch costing thousands of francs , between buying a gigot and a gâteau St Honoré ? |
| 28 | I asked myself why Jean-Claude left me in the dark . |
| 29 | I asked myself what I would feel if on his journey back to Paris he had an accident . |
| 30 | I asked myself . |