Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 2 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 3 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 4 | ‘ Ranulf the rat-catcher came to see me earlier today . |
| 5 | Tagore described one of these lovers of all things : ‘ One day in a small village in Bengal , an ascetic woman from the neighbourhood came to see me . |
| 6 | Jo Saunders , a Re-evaluation Co-counsellor came to suss me out and see whether I was worthy of her efforts . |
| 7 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 8 | The monster finished telling me his story , and then he said : |
| 9 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 10 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 11 | The house agent had assured me that a bathroom and lavatory had been installed upstairs above the scullery ; looking at those nettles , I hoped he had told the truth . |
| 12 | Within weeks of my arrival , Mme Bluot at the bakery had asked me whether I would consider giving her son Didier English conversation lessons . |
| 13 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 14 | And I hoped the Corporal had noticed I 'd said ‘ you can get to high ground ’ and not ‘ we can get to high ground ’ . |
| 15 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 16 | The wraith had caught me up . |
| 17 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 18 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 19 | It seemed mah lover had left me 'gain Oh I |
| 20 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 21 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 22 | I stuffed the sack down out of sight , and straightened , to see that my search had brought me above a cleft in the moorland through which a glimpse of the western machair could be seen . |
| 23 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 24 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 25 | Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle . |
| 26 | First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades . |
| 27 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |
| 28 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 29 | Unless I could find the place where my would-be killer had brought me out , and get back in . |
| 30 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |