Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 2 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 3 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 4 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 5 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 6 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 7 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 8 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 9 | Because he knew what I 'd sent the fax for er , he knew what I 'd sent that for . |
| 10 | this morning what I 'd done this morning was just dancing about cos I , I had to go to the toilet I could n't wait |
| 11 | Of course , Jim had instantly seen what I 'd missed all along with my stupid envy . |
| 12 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 13 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 14 | That 's what I had to do this morning |
| 15 | You obviously think so and that indicates what I had suspected all along — that you really are upset at the thought of your lover being away with Maria Luisa ; hence your ridiculous outcries and accusations . ’ |
| 16 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 17 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing was what I seemed to get most of . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 20 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 21 | I I think what what I wanted to put some more meat on the basic idea so that |