Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 3 | I got told last night . |
| 4 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 5 | I tried to ring last night to say I would n't be home , but the machine was n't on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 7 | But , if I 'd gone next Thursday there 'd be e English , and then it 'd be a a job for them if they |
| 8 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 9 | for one thing , if we 'd taken one of their houses and I 'd died first , my wife would of been left without a home |
| 10 | I decided to speak first to the father , because he was blind , and would not be frightened by my terrible face and body . |
| 11 | ‘ I started boxing last November and I really like it . |
| 12 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 13 | no , we 're just talking about when I did last week remember when I went teaching last week and you went to Ian 's house did n't you ? |
| 14 | Mind you , I did think last year the grant was down too low , at eight hundred thousand , but that was the amount they put in , it was two point eight , I think , to start with , and two million pounds offered in the end . |
| 15 | See , I did go last week |
| 16 | The same as I did mention last week , . |
| 17 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 18 | And though this may sound macabre , I did enjoy last night once it got going . |
| 19 | I was even , you know , obviously you can worry about sending the stuff , this canvass three out purely because the the amount of instructions I had to do last week . |
| 20 | He fell back , but the other man , the one I had seen first , came running forward . |
| 21 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 22 | It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year . |
| 23 | I had conquered first Aix , then Paris . |
| 24 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 25 | My time was slow ( 10.14 ) , but on the other hand I had run fourth in my first World Championship . |
| 26 | I had to give first aid treatment when needed and issued simple medicines , which included ‘ Miss Alba ’ , a white elixir effective in the eradication of constipation . |
| 27 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 28 | I had to sit next to a monstrously fat man . |
| 29 | because it was Tuesday so I had to have next choose the following weeks ' . |
| 30 | I had got first prize for guitar at the Melody Maker contest and soon I was selling stories and now I find my principal interest is still p H. |