Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 3 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 4 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 5 | ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May . |
| 6 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 7 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 8 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 9 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 10 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 11 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 12 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 14 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 15 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 16 | He said the idea of a single currency was ‘ even less realistic than I believed it to be nine months ago ’ . |
| 17 | It came out more vehemently than I meant it to . |
| 18 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 19 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 20 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 22 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 23 | I admit that I 'm as much to blame , I should have come to visit her , but I understood her mother was never off the doorstep , so I left her to it . |
| 24 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 25 | I knew she might get it wrong , so I spelled it for her , ’ Paul says . |
| 26 | ‘ Mike thrust them at me before I left , so I brought them with me . |
| 27 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 28 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 29 | He would n't take it , so I pressed it on Felix instead . |
| 30 | ‘ Until recently , ’ Carl said , ‘ there were no provisions for new ideas , so I kept them in my files until a need arose . |