Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 2 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 3 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 4 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
| 5 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
| 6 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 7 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 8 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 9 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 10 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 11 | Did I leave any splashes on the bench ? |
| 12 | Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ? |
| 13 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 14 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 15 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 16 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 17 | What did I call that person who comes |
| 18 | Did I take that picture ? |
| 19 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 20 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 21 | ‘ Did I have any problems with Cantona ? |
| 22 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 23 | Why did I have this feeling ? |
| 24 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 25 | Did I hear that detective say you were a reporter ? ’ |
| 26 | The mind can go horribly blank , especially when you 're thinking , ‘ Did I hear that right ? |
| 27 | The first question really should be ‘ why did I buy this machine ? ’ |
| 28 | We are not Jewish , so where did I learn this word ? |
| 29 | When did I say that Lauren ? |
| 30 | Nor did I notice this fact until we were well on our way home . ’ |