Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 5 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 6 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 7 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 8 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 9 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 10 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 11 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 12 | I felt I needed different challenges , to move on . |
| 13 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 14 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 15 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 16 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 17 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 18 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 19 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 20 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 21 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 22 | I thought I had other books ? |
| 23 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
| 24 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 25 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 26 | we go over there and erm so I do , what I did I put that meat out to thaw the night before so it was thawed |
| 27 | so what I did I put another carrot in extra |
| 28 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
| 29 | I said I recognize that Range Rover I said , left hand drive in n it ? |
| 30 | They 'd write a poem for her about my greatest fear , I said I remember last year there was a boy called Ali and he wrote a story about a poem about this bird and cos he was really scared of that and so I said I do n't suppose any of you will write about being scared of me except perhaps Adine ! |