Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then I asked to go straight back .
2 Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … "
3 ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained .
4 That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you .
5 ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem .
6 My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’
7 I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes .
8 I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ .
9 ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals .
10 I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line .
11 Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
12 While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well .
13 Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments .
14 I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends .
15 And I got to get some toilet roll .
16 I got to have some beef in that role .
17 Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , .
18 I got told last night .
19 Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up !
20 Soon as I got paid last month .
21 I expected to see all kind of things you know
22 At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power .
23 Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh .
24 I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices .
25 " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper .
26 I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus .
27 I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming .
28 Joan Warren and I tried to label each member as she came in , and the visitors ' book was passed round , but we inevitably missed people , so a head-count was impossible .
29 I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End .
30 I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies .
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