Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 2 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 3 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 4 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 5 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 6 | As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life . |
| 7 | It occurred to me that its republication in our Symposium might both appeal to him and attract public attention : for I considered it an authoritative statement of the value of Humanism ( the title was a little misleading ) in its relation to religion . |