Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 3 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 4 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 5 | ‘ That bookshop experience really helped when we set up Headline and I started running the UK sales force . |
| 6 | He mentioned a sum which would pay my rent until I 'd finished the helium balloon and leave some over for sandwiches . |
| 7 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 8 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 9 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 10 | I told an uninterested reception clerk that I had to catch the boat train ( let them look for me in Calais , I thought . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I forgot to sign the card index that I had administered the drug and I could not order more because it was a Sunday . ’ |
| 12 | Luckily Crispins of Curtain Road in London , my main veneer supplier , still had four leaves from the same bundle that I had purchased the original set from . |
| 13 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 14 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 15 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's bad for the sport because I wanted to win the crown in the ring by fighting for the undisputed title , ’ said Lewis . |
| 17 | I was working in a heart clinic off Harley Street as a receptionist and delivery boy when I decided to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 18 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 19 | Marker sentence If I 'd known the price , I would n't have bought the book . |
| 20 | They went into the kitchen and I started to tidy the room , gathering the plates from here and there and scattering the remains of the food on the window ledge . |
| 21 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 22 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 23 | Teacher If I 'd known Student If I 'd known Teacher the price Student the price Teacher If I 'd known the price Student If I 'd known the prices , etc |
| 24 | My last memory of Robert W. Service was his staunch refusal when I offered to write the story of his life . |
| 25 | I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe . |
| 26 | Car dealer Ricky Evans , 30 , of Basingstoke , Hants , said yesterday : ‘ I did n't think I stood a chance so I 'd thrown the slip aside . ’ |
| 27 | When I arrived , I found to my great irritation that I 'd forgotten the film . |
| 28 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 29 | We had first hung the avant-garde pictures in our main room , but as the man in charge of our building , and a local policeman , sometimes called on us , my wife and I decided to hang the pictures in the bedroom and put the icons in the living room . |
| 30 | The conversation faded into the distance and I paused to refill the Unwins ' cups , where the talk was about Upper Gumtree having the edge over Mercer 's premiere that was coming to Winnipeg by road . |