Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Can I + can I make I wanted to make general point earlier .
2 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
3 He would know I had placed two packets there inside .
4 On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent .
5 Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that .
6 John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’
7 He said , ‘ You have to know I loved doing this movie .
8 And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven .
9 It can be said I wanted to taste other joys which were available in life before the inevitable disaster .
10 well , do n't you remember I had to pay one pound fifty something last Christmas
11 Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ?
12 ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’
13 I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities .
14 Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people .
15 I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing .
16 Now she would discover I had stolen some brandy , and put water in the bottle .
17 But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight .
18 I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day .
19 Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then .
20 ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself .
21 I felt I had gained enough experience and as I was having the baby it all tied in together . ’
22 Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home .
23 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
24 ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things .
25 From reading sex manuals I knew I wanted to give oral sex because I love that part of a woman 's anatomy and I wanted to get close to it .
26 I thought I had made that plain . ’
27 She thought I had inherited all Miss Lockwood 's property .
28 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
29 First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble .
30 Er , what 's it 's I was still on traction you see , and last week when I went I thought I 'd got these hives .
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