Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 2 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 3 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 4 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 5 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 6 | The issue centres upon the response to an order made by Mr. Justice Garland in the early hours of 2 May and the consideration that I gave to that order at a meeting at 4 pm on the same day . |
| 7 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 8 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 9 | You know , I always feel desperate , and I apologized to that family , but it has to be done ’ ( FN 5/1/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 10 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 11 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 12 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 13 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 14 | Now , I and I went to other day , I was having quite bad headaches from the back of my eyes , feeling like , you know , I had pressure there , and so , I think it was just headaches but I wanted to go and check it out , and I went to the , cos my dad said oh if you go to the opticians erm , they give you free checks as you 've got glaucoma in the family , and erm , or glaucoma , or whatever you call it . |
| 15 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 16 | And I went to that meeting thinking |
| 17 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 18 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 19 | not really , always have more gravy , did n't , I did n't think the meat was as good , you did n't either and I went to another butcher because I thought it |
| 20 | And I went to last summer we took a er I took a sha er not a sha erm tt static caravan in , at er Prestatyn an and erm |
| 21 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 22 | He threw himself at me and I jumped to one side , leaving him to fall on the deck . |
| 23 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 24 | Cos I went to this kit car show and they had erm |
| 25 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 26 | But I felt such a twit , cos I said to this man I , I do n't know about you , but I ca n't get my money . |
| 27 | That was too bad cos I said to this bloke . |
| 28 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 29 | What , any other things that you 'd got , but I talked to each group individually , erm but if you want to share any of your thoughts with everybody else I 'm standing in the way . |
| 30 | ‘ I confess that I have not addressed such a large gathering since I spoke to 40,000 Gujerati buffalo farmers in India in 1980 , and that was a rare experience . ’ |