Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 3 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 4 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 5 | When I was younger I hated having red hair . |
| 6 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 7 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 8 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 9 | And then when I was about twenty four , twenty four or five I 'd got twenty men working for me , so er we were n't doing so bad . |
| 10 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |
| 11 | But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously . |
| 12 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |