Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 2 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 3 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 4 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 5 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 6 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 7 | When I nervously entered the breakfast-room I looked up at — a black column ! |
| 8 | Derive an expression for the magnetic field H at a point P distant a from the centre line of a long thin conducting strip of width b ( Fig. 3.19 ) which carries a longitudinal current I uniformly distributed across its section . |
| 9 | Zak and I instinctively went nearer , he in front , I in his shadow . |
| 10 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
| 11 | I instinctively looked away , the way children do when they see something naughty , as though witnessing it might incriminate them . |
| 12 | But now I instinctively thought , Oh no you did n't Ollie , you did n't resign , you got sacked . |
| 13 | I instinctively knew I was going to like him . |
| 14 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 15 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 16 | I instinctively put up my arms and caught him . ’ |
| 17 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 18 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 19 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 20 | I told Joan de Warenne I would return in May , Edward thought — I little knew then that such calamity and change of fortune would summon me hither ! |
| 21 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 22 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 23 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 24 | I loosely tossed a swirl of Moroccan curtain over the sofa , slid Act 3 of Orfeo onto the revolving mat , lit an Al Akhbar joss-stick , and left it at that . |
| 25 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 26 | Perhaps because I always went there in the heat of the afternoon , I rarely saw anyone in the gardens . |
| 27 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 28 | I rarely saw the learning supported by the practical work the textbooks themselves suggest . |
| 29 | I rarely knew the answer to that when we were married . ’ |
| 30 | At the end of the rue Victorie , past the Café du Coin , was a road I rarely took alone , and never with Didier . |