Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 2 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 3 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 6 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 10 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Knew I had elementary skill . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 21 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
| 22 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 23 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What did I call that person who comes |
| 27 | Did I take that picture ? |
| 28 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 29 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 30 | Why did I have this feeling ? |