Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 2 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 5 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 7 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 8 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 9 | I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you . |
| 10 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 11 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't know if I passed her in the street |
| 13 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 14 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 15 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 16 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 17 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 18 | President , congress I 've got ta up and say to you , I had , I 've had to borrow the wife 's glasses this morning cos I left mine in the car |
| 19 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 20 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 21 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 22 | ‘ Since I put him in the Melbourne Cup , which is a serious entry , we 've had enquiries from America , so he could yet change stables . ’ |
| 23 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 24 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 25 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 26 | ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim . |
| 27 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 28 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 29 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 30 | I suspected it last night , and you confirmed it for me when I touched you in the lift on the way up to the restaurant tonight . |