Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 2 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 3 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 4 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 5 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 6 | And I felt it was n't up to them , I did n't have enough experience I wanted to gain some more experience but it just fell away , lapse . |
| 7 | cos like Joanne 's bedroom I 'd measured that , that 's sixty six drop so I ended up getting seventy two drop curtains |
| 8 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 9 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 10 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 11 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 12 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 13 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 14 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 15 | But Louise was not a coward , even as a little girl I had understood this . |
| 16 | With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink . |
| 17 | As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’ |
| 18 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 19 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 20 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 21 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 22 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 23 | A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect . |
| 24 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 25 | After all , she thought , how can I forget the day I agreed to enslave most of Europe ? |
| 26 | All that stuff I brought bring that back with you . |
| 27 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 28 | FIGURE 5 After the initial laying in of colour I began to introduce more of a feeling of form to the objects while retaining the strong sense of pattern |
| 29 | And the knowledge I 'd betrayed all I believe in to have you ? ’ |
| 30 | Somewhat on impulse I decided to try this route . |