Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 2 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 3 | Turning back to the clerk I said , ‘ It 's my sister . |
| 4 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 5 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 6 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 7 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 8 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 9 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 10 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |
| 11 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 12 | The counsel I used was an exceptionally suitable person , Sir Joseph Molony QC , the son of a Northern Ireland judge . |
| 13 | PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way . |
| 14 | PS I forgot . |
| 15 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 16 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 17 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 18 | We fell to our knees , the gold coins clinking ominously in the napkin I clutched . |
| 19 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 20 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 21 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 22 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 23 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 24 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 25 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 26 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 27 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 28 | Little trick I learnt years |
| 29 | I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty . |
| 30 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |