Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 2 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 3 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 4 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 5 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 6 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 7 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 8 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 9 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 10 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 11 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 12 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 13 | I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail . |
| 14 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 15 | You 're still the slim chick I knew in nineteen seventy four . |
| 16 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 17 | I actually wanted someone to share the excruciating sad pleasure I got from some of the words … . |
| 18 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 19 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 20 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 21 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 22 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 23 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 24 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 25 | In contrast with type II focus , the type I ranged from 0.017 to 0.033 . |
| 26 | Then , in that mean , ill-lit corridor I collided with another prisoner being pushed the other way . |
| 27 | Shame I won on that lottery Gary ! |
| 28 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 29 | The most startling insight I gained from this meeting was the proportion of overall growth in housing provision being made to satisfy migration from England . |
| 30 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |