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

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1 Then I asked to go straight back .
2 I asked to have one of the family present when I opened the safe but Gerald objects to it being opened at all without their solicitor being present .
3 I applied to do Voluntary Services Overseas ( VSO ) .
4 Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black .
5 ‘ No , I 'ad to give half of it back , ’ breathed Dolly .
6 I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one .
7 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 … "
8 Nobody else I met had any big reservations .
9 Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components .
10 After all , she thought , how can I forget the day I agreed to enslave most of Europe ?
11 In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction …
12 ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained .
13 That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you .
14 I failed to arrange any stereotypical symbol of masculinity in the porch where all visitors would see it instantly : a pair of size ten wellingtons , a cricket fixture list , a rifle perhaps .
15 As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning .
16 Even upon discovering the full facts of life , my father 's role in my conception , I failed to shift some of my guilt onto him .
17 ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem .
18 My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’
19 WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame .
20 I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes .
21 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 ’ .
22 And look , I got to say this : I did n't ask for you all to get involved .
23 For just a minute I got gone deaf .
24 I got to see this , got to see this .
25 Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know .
26 I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive .
27 I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand
28 ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals .
29 I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it
30 When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ?
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