Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 2 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 3 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 4 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen . |
| 6 | I thought I recognised the little shit . ’ |
| 7 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 8 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 9 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |
| 10 | Yeah , you said , that 's Mrs 's boy , but she said I thought the two big ones wherever |
| 11 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |
| 12 | No she said , I 'll get you ! and he said I have the mobile phone number . |