Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 2 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 3 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 4 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 5 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 6 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 7 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 8 | He took a tentative bite and then started howling again , so I had to open a tin of Whiskas — turkey flavour , full price . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 10 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 11 | When I got back I found the office was n't open until the next day , so I had to get a driver to break in for me . |
| 12 | EQ'ing helps , but I found that over-correction would affect the lead channel , which shares the same tone circuitry , so I had to accept a compromise for my crunch sound . |
| 13 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 14 | Anyway , one day me and my mates were all going to a party so I decided to do a home perm . |
| 15 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 16 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 17 | ‘ So I decided to have a haircut . |
| 18 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 19 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 20 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 21 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 22 | Once I had desired a world made good and right and pure , as I conceived , by a Liberal statesman benevolent and omnipotent . |
| 23 | Once I had established a tub full of white worm , every plant pot in the house was seeded with a small amount of worm and these are occasionally fed with a piece of moist bread . |
| 24 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 25 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 26 | Well , in comes Alf , with 'is belly full of old and mild as usual , and asks me why do I look as if I 'd lost a pound and found thruppence . |
| 27 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 28 | as if I 'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us . |
| 29 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 30 | And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it . |