Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 2 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 3 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 4 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 5 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 6 | It did n't leave much time for going out to play , and I resented it a great deal . |
| 7 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 8 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
| 9 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 10 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 11 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 12 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 13 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 14 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 15 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 16 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 17 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 18 | It would n't come across as very credible if I trusted you a third time . |
| 19 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 21 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 22 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 23 | I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase . |
| 24 | ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone . |
| 25 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
| 26 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 27 | Yeah , only I want him to try these on you see because I bought him a new pair yesterday |
| 28 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 29 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 30 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |