Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 2 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 3 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 4 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 5 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 6 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 7 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 8 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 9 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 11 | I was so thankful she was well that I too laughed at the repartee . |
| 12 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 13 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 14 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 15 | The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral . |
| 16 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 17 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 18 | Annoyingly , I have just discovered ( on my ‘ Fantasy League ’ mail being sent back to me ) that every single pounds sign that I lovingly put in the mail has been intpreted by the damn stupid mail program as ‘ stlg ’ or ‘ u ’ , and I 'm sure there will be plenty of other variations . |
| 19 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 22 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 23 | I get into habits very easily , you see , so I soon got into the habit of coming here every night for dinner . ’ |
| 24 | The butler went off , there was no butler then so I really helped with the with the with the with the food and all that you know . |
| 25 | The tent seemed eerily dark , so I gingerly drawled towards the door and unzipped it slightly . |
| 26 | Once I actually got inside the privacy of the polling booth , a wave of doubt came over me . |
| 27 | Someone has said I 'm a well-known gangland figure , and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home . |
| 28 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 29 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 30 | It 's just that , well , I was passing Mr Connon 's house and I just looked over the hedge and I saw someone . |