Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or did I get the answer wrong ? |
| 2 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 3 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 4 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 5 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 6 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 7 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 8 | ‘ It was n't a drunken stupor , nor did I make the tart . ’ |
| 9 | As it happened I did not own a bike , nor did I possess the corduroy shorts , commando rucksack , chunky woollen socks and thick , dubbined boots which were the uniform of the dedicated rambler . |
| 10 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 11 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 12 | Nor did I have the urge to linger on the Neva embankment with Charsky . |
| 13 | ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head . |
| 14 | Nor did I have the inclination , she added silently . |
| 15 | Nor had I forgotten the swivel-gun mounted on the roof . |
| 16 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 17 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 18 | ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’ |
| 19 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 20 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 21 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 22 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 23 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 24 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 25 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 26 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 27 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 28 | For more than 20 years the IRA has been executing a horrendous campaign of genocide against the Protestant community , and in the names of the thousands of dead and injured I urge the Government to take the war to the terrorists . |
| 29 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 30 | Then he produced his gun and forced me to provide the car . |