Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 2 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 3 | One night there was a very bad storm , and I thought I heard the sound of guns out at sea . |
| 4 | And I said I put the fridge on . |
| 5 | And I said I bought the radio cassette , bought |
| 6 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 7 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 8 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 9 | I think I took drugs to escape my problems , because I thought I had the world on my shoulders for a number of reasons . |
| 10 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
| 11 | When I married I left the classes but now , all these years later , I joined them again . |
| 12 | When I finished I took the lift down to the typing pool . |
| 13 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 14 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 15 | It was frightening and exhausting for him , and as early as I dared I telephoned the doctor , who came quickly and prescribed Largactil . |
| 16 | As I hurried I heard the scrabbling patter of the wolves closing in . |
| 17 | ‘ This time as I talked I felt the ground move . |
| 18 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |