Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 2 | Tell me I had done the right thing . |
| 3 | The school bursar , to whom I had to report the damage , was stern but not unkind . |
| 4 | He brought with him , among others , the new Communist Transport Minister , Charles Fiterman , whom I had met the previous week . |
| 5 | He was a gentle little man rather like the steward from the Bremen whom I had met the night before . |
| 6 | The retired milkman , from whom I had borrowed the can , told me that the dent was the result of an accident with a bicycle . |
| 7 | Citing the case of one of the juveniles whom I had encountered the previous week : |
| 8 | The person for whom I had left the message replied that he was sorry to hear of the death of our mutual friend . |
| 9 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 10 | Some time later a well-known angler , to whom I had shown the remains , was boasting of my catch to a mutual friend who was scornful , regarding anything more than 10 inches long unfit for the table . |
| 11 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 12 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 13 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 14 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 15 | I also had two 1Mb SIMMS which I fitted to test the viability of Dixon 's proposed upgrade . |
| 16 | Later in my newspaper career I was privileged to act as front page editor for a short time during which I enjoyed writing the 8-column headline and then arranging the other headlines , photo blocks and single or double columns to present a well-balanced and good looking front page spread . |
| 17 | He spent the rest of his time in the local bar , which I 'd called The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . |
| 18 | No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me . |
| 19 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 20 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 21 | I passed the morning in the downstairs sitting-room , to which I had restored the picture of Mr Gladstone , and I read Pride and Prejudice -very soothing . |
| 22 | There remained one area in which I wanted to improve the effectiveness of the Accidents Investigation Branch . |
| 23 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 24 | From there I had a good view of a beautiful statue of the Madonna and Child lit by the flickering flames of candlelight , as well as of a small raised plinth of stone which I supposed marked the tomb of some notable . |
| 25 | Is the environmental assessment to which my hon. Friend referred the same one as that referred to by the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) who I understood to mean the King 's Cross project , while my hon. Friend was referring to the high-speed link ? |
| 26 | ‘ Something I had thought the people of this land had done with . |
| 27 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal — Yes , it was the one I 'd dreamt the night before I got my results . |
| 28 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 29 | no that was the one I tried to buy the refill for which was a fibre tip |
| 30 | ‘ I told him I wanted to join the Order . ’ |