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

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1 I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one .
2 to me and say look I agreed and I will say to the other forms that they 've go , they 've all got
3 Then I tried it Cloister and it was too boring , and then I saw that they had Lanston Cochin at Mackenzie and Harris in San Francisco , so we used that and when we moved to phototype I did n't really go with the whole Jenson thing at all .
4 When Lili stopped speaking I wished I could ask her to repeat what she had said , but already she was lighting a cigarette and talking about linen .
5 The first time she stopped breathing I panicked , but we know how to resuscitate her . ’
6 Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were .
7 I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty
8 But once she 'd explained I felt much calmer .
9 Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that .
10 you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off .
11 I 'd forgotten I had a husband .
12 I 'd forgotten I had a professional to impress . ’
13 Of course , after he 'd resigned I knew who he was .
14 With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours .
15 I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school .
16 It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies .
17 I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers .
18 Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling
19 She 'd So I thought well I 'd I Well he 'd I did n't say what he 'd done I did n't ask about that , I mean I had I had enough trouble without asking questions like that you see .
20 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
21 And I 'd got I 'd bought one of his !
22 I thought we 'd got I thought we could satisfy .
23 I 'd had I 'd had schooling you see ?
24 But it explained a few things — the kindness I 'd thought I 'd detected , his seemingly unreasonable act of firing me …
25 Well if I 'd known I 'd gone down there .
26 ‘ Oh , yes , a nurse came across ; she 'd remembered I 'd already seen the doctor .
27 I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again .
28 ‘ Once he 'd disappeared I did n't take any more notice .
29 When he 'd gone I went back to bed .
30 I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down .
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