Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 3 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 4 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 5 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 6 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 7 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 8 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 9 | In the week before work began I prepared three documents . |
| 10 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 11 | But currently she 's by Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestly 's side in the video for Roy Orbison 's chart hit I Drove All Night . |
| 12 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 13 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 14 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 15 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 16 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 17 | I felt I needed different challenges , to move on . |
| 18 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 19 | Knew I had elementary skill . |
| 20 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 21 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 22 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 23 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 24 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 25 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 26 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 27 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 28 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
| 29 | I thought I had other books ? |
| 30 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |