Example sentences of "[coord] i [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation .
2 And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum
3 I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove .
4 Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme .
5 ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me .
6 Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle .
7 Her conversation is always worth listening to , and I completely forgot to ask the name of the dark , proud girl .
8 It was my first experience of flying and I soon came to like the journeys , usually from Aberdeen to Norwich for me , in the low flying Fokker Friendships of Air Anglia , later to become Air UK .
9 ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual .
10 I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping .
11 I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson
12 Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge !
13 Will and I always went to see the plays .
14 ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said .
15 The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules .
16 all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff !
17 ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money .
18 There 's a national debate going on t we 're not gon na crack it here this afternoon and I do n't want to get in there but I just wanted to put the other side of the er of the coin to that .
19 no they have n't , they 're gon na go all the way round the top section as well , but I just wanted to get the bottom section built first , get some of that plant food in
20 I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away .
21 I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
22 Erm , yeah ( he lies ) , but I really meant to say every window in the house .
23 But I still had to pay the new increase like !
24 I had got to the beach , but I still had to find the dinghy — and Joanna .
25 I kept reading and my knowledge kept growing , but I still wanted to see an owl 's nest and experience the thrill of actually seeing one in flight , in the feather , so to speak .
26 ‘ That 's the way it goes , but I still wanted to dig a deep hole and dive in it .
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