Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 2 | I had n't seen any show yet — all the books seemed to imply I should have had one by now . |
| 3 | Mum 's eyes popped to see me bringing home the fireman . |
| 4 | I attended the first two or three , before my legs started to trouble me . ’ |
| 5 | There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’ |
| 6 | We did a lot of woodwork at our school , and the other kids liked to lock me and my friends in the storeroom and have us chant ‘ Manchester United , Manchester United , we are the boot boys ’ as they held chisels to our throats and cut off our shoelaces . |
| 7 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 8 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 9 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 10 | But it was too late , their kids had seen me . |
| 11 | Clutches of spirited teenagers had ignored me . |
| 12 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 13 | But his words had chilled me . |
| 14 | Words had failed me . |
| 15 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 16 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 17 | Their pompous promises and grandiloquent phrases failed to convince me so I quickly took the air in the graveyard where all the wolfs-heads , villains and counterfeit men hid from the law . |
| 18 | One of the judges agreed to accompany me on a visit to one of these centres . |
| 19 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 20 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 21 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 22 | Too sniffy and cursory for today 's friendly Banff with its many tractors and willing hospitality : the hotel being closed , the lady behind the counter in the newsagents offered to make me Dr Johnson 's pleasure , a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 24 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 25 | If I 'd said your parents had asked me to come , do you think I 'd have got you to tell me about Ryan ? ’ |
| 26 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 27 | ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual . |
| 28 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 29 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |