Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines .
2 The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me .
3 ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket .
4 Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale .
5 This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention .
6 For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio .
7 If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear .
8 Not one of you noticed that I dipped this finger into the samples but licked another one .
9 " Then March came and I thought I cant tell her now , I 'm too far gone , she 'll go mad . "
10 This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh .
11 In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement .
12 ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help .
13 Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded .
14 Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong .
15 Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong .
16 Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division .
17 Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’
18 It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head .
19 My insight into my own motivations in ‘ choosing ’ anorexia began when I read this statement : ‘ Addiction , obesity , starvation ( anorexia nervosa ) are political problems , not psychiatric ; each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual 's body . ’
20 We 're talking about 1970 , 69–70 , and I decided that I liked this kind of … .
21 I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames .
22 And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked .
23 I saw that I had new books by my bedside .
24 The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made .
25 When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses .
26 He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know .
27 My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’
28 The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment .
29 Went and I saw some monkeys though .
30 ‘ I thought if I got next door , we might get talking , perhaps get back together .
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