Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got elected I got elected because the erm roads in this county were in a six hundred year repair cycle . |
| 2 | I got elected because the teacher/pupil ratio |
| 3 | I got elected because the primary teacher/pupil ratio was the worst in the country . |
| 4 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 5 | Groggily I tried to turn as the room spun round . |
| 6 | I tried to eavesdrop but the door was too thick . |
| 7 | I tried to argue that the Criterion had neglected to pay enough attention to certain lines of contemporary thought , above all that represented by Collingwood . |
| 8 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 9 | This had occurred to me , but I 'd hoped that the attack had been random . |
| 10 | Er now it 's it 's rather interesting er as an aside , I 'd heard that the Central African mounted police were trying to hire young men of er er at least sound mind and probably tough body . |
| 11 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 12 | I 'd resolved that the next woman I let into my life would be chosen with my mind and my heart — not my eyes and my libido ! ’ |
| 13 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 14 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 15 | After a while , the numbness I 'd experienced after the press conference set in , and I felt again as if I were talking not about John and me , but about two different people . |
| 16 | I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen , but in parallel , with everyone else 's world . |
| 17 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 18 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 19 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 20 | I forgot to say that the guerrilla who was pretending to be a madman had let Sis . |
| 21 | Sorry , I forgot to mention that the fax and collect method works for tickets , mine was waitning for me last night . |
| 22 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 24 | After these conversations I began to wonder whether the Houys were right . |
| 25 | And then I began to notice that the pictures on the walls were all prints of cavalry regiments , and a hatstand in a corner was n't really a hatstand but another empty shell case with a clutch of regimental flags standing in it . |
| 26 | I began to realize that the absent Celia had not had an altogether easy time with Aunt Louise in her care . |
| 27 | I began to imagine that the landlord , being about to emigrate , might murder us to get our money … ’ and claims that Johnson had entertained the same fears , although Johnson never mentions such thoughts . |
| 28 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 29 | I decided to wait until the sea took me somewhere safer on the north side of the island . |
| 30 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |