Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Hillbillies project , I enjoyed doing the record so much that I just wanted to do a little tour . |
| 2 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 3 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 4 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 5 | Nor was I surprised that I often had to show the students how language use might be made meaningful . |
| 6 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 7 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 8 | I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove . |
| 9 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
| 10 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 11 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 12 | Her conversation is always worth listening to , and I completely forgot to ask the name of the dark , proud girl . |
| 13 | It was my first experience of flying and I soon came to like the journeys , usually from Aberdeen to Norwich for me , in the low flying Fokker Friendships of Air Anglia , later to become Air UK . |
| 14 | ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual . |
| 15 | I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping . |
| 16 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 17 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 18 | Will and I always went to see the plays . |
| 19 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 21 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 22 | If I ever had to qualify an audit report , I 'd run it past Claire first . |
| 23 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 24 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 25 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 26 | There 's a national debate going on t we 're not gon na crack it here this afternoon and I do n't want to get in there but I just wanted to put the other side of the er of the coin to that . |
| 27 | no they have n't , they 're gon na go all the way round the top section as well , but I just wanted to get the bottom section built first , get some of that plant food in |
| 28 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 29 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 30 | Erm , yeah ( he lies ) , but I really meant to say every window in the house . |