Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 2 | I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe . |
| 3 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 4 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 5 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 6 | Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot . |
| 7 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 8 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 9 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 10 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Although I did watch the Ten in session from the visitors ’ gallery . ’ |
| 12 | The inner door has a large mosquito net , although I did feel the mesh should have been on the outside of the door flap so you could keep bugs out . |
| 13 | If this was foolish , what was unforgivable was not to confess sooner — immediately I had picked the receiver up again . |
| 14 | ‘ So I threatened to take the case to court . ’ |
| 15 | Dawn had at first been reluctant to get off my glove , so I 'd developed the habit of swinging my arm with the wind , hoping to encourage her to fly . |
| 16 | Car dealer Ricky Evans , 30 , of Basingstoke , Hants , said yesterday : ‘ I did n't think I stood a chance so I 'd thrown the slip aside . ’ |
| 17 | I could n't , so I had to let the premises go . |
| 18 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 19 | It was new , expensive and identical to the one that occupied a full page in the current Vogue , so I had spent the day at a crime fiction convention feeling more confident about my appearance than usual . |
| 20 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 21 | Because of the pain I could n't manage to pull the sledge in the uphill parts , so I had to break the bales in half , tie them up separately and carry them to the level bits , and load up again . |
| 22 | Benjamin wandered off , saying he wished to speak to Waldegrave , so I decided to take the air in the garden behind the chateau . |
| 23 | But at the end of 1990 the group was reorganised and Mr Wise was less happy with the outcome : ‘ I found the general direction in which the group was going did n't really satisfy me in terms of long-term interests or challenge , so I decided to bite the bullet . ’ |
| 24 | In Slovakia the main rivers are either too low or , if big enough , heavily polluted , so I decided to try the Samos River from the Rumanian border to the Tisza River and on to Tokai ( the wine ) . |
| 25 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 26 | FIGURE 1 In this five by four foot painting I wanted to emphasise the strength of the granite structure , so I decided to counter-balance the sense of its solidity with a diffused and scumbled sky , Figures , walls and railings were initially indicated and loose brush strokes of warm pink applied to the sky area . |
| 27 | It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay . |
| 28 | ‘ After another family tragedy , I realised that I could n't shut myself off for ever , so I started attending the Circle meetings again . |
| 29 | There was still a light in the window of Michael Quirke 's shop , so I called to wish the woodcarver goodbye . |
| 30 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |