Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 2 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 3 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 4 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 5 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 6 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 7 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 8 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 9 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to think , sometimes , that I 'd built a house for strangers to live in . |
| 11 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 12 | I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you . |
| 13 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 14 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 15 | So he came to the conclusion that I 'd torn a muscle . |
| 16 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 18 | After a while , though , I began to feel sure that I 'd spotted a Gharrgoyle — or maybe a different one at different times — wriggling through the crowds behind me . |
| 19 | There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ? |
| 20 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 21 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure you do , but Kitty must n't ever know that I 'd had a hand in it . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps it was while watching the faces , that I began to get a mirror of my own doubts . |
| 24 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 25 | Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo . |
| 26 | I stood there in the dark and the rain , and knew that I had created a monster . |
| 27 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 28 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 29 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 30 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |