Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 2 | You did n't think I intended to stay at the Crowned Head , did you ? ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , when I went to go I had to go to the desk give you a token , this token lifts the barrier up . |
| 4 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 5 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 6 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 7 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |
| 8 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 9 | His smile was so elfin I was reminded of a troll and a performance of Peer Gynt I had seen at the Maddermarket in Norwich . |
| 10 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 11 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 12 | ‘ You remember I had to get in a barman to help with drunks and keep a bit of law and order about the place ? |
| 13 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 14 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |
| 15 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 16 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 17 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 19 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 20 | I felt I had stumbled on the city 's ghetto quarter . |
| 21 | AS A COPYWRITER AT the agency responsible for advertising the launch of Femidom I felt I had to comment on the remarks made by your testees ( pun intended ) . |
| 22 | I still felt I had to write concerning the Flying ‘ V ’ Hendrix Signature model . |
| 23 | I felt I had strayed into the workshop of a latter-day Anton von Leeuwenhoek , the pioneer microscopist who was noted for his high-performance single lenses . |
| 24 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 25 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 26 | I knew I had to choose between the two , and I chose Doctor Jekyll . |
| 27 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew I wanted to go into the application of research ’ , he said . |
| 30 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |