Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my visit I spoke to tubeman extraordinaire Lee Jackson , about his history , and the future of Ampeg under his guidance … |
| 2 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 3 | After my graduation I lectured in marketing-related subjects at a local Australian Government College . |
| 4 | Once during its composition I wrote to her : |
| 5 | Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity . |
| 6 | and erm I went to school at then at the later part of my life I went to Hemel Hempstead and then I left only for four months and went to er work for an ironmonger at ten shillings a week . |
| 7 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ For much of my life I lived in the Hacienda de Nieve surrounded by savage formality . |
| 9 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 10 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 11 | Mustering the remains of my dignity I nodded to Mr Bailes . |
| 12 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 13 | Straight after I got out of my car I went to Alain to apologise but he did n't want to accept . |
| 14 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 15 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 16 | When they were lowering my father 's coffin into his grave I thought to myself ‘ It 's all over ! ’ |
| 17 | Jubilant with our success I descended through the swirling spindrift from the summit of Mera Peak ( 6461m ) with Horst and Lal Bahadur , our climbing sirdar . |
| 18 | So before my call-up I went to old Mr Grover in Darrowby and he painstakingly did all that was necessary . |
| 19 | In my dream I flew through a twilight until I reached a forest of enormous trees . |
| 20 | But while I lay in my bed I thought about the accident . |
| 21 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 22 | Later in my visit I travelled to a village where AIDS victims had been left to rot in a hut because they were thought to have been bewitched . |
| 23 | In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight . |
| 24 | When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London . |
| 25 | While waiting some of us were given a quick look behind the scenes , and then to my surprise I bumped into three members of the Gwili Railway , on a trip to collect some railway hardware . |
| 26 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 27 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 28 | When I got back to my room I waited for my friend Malleson . |
| 29 | Over his shoulder I looked at the sheets covering the Corporal , the bloodstain widening . |
| 30 | On our way I looked for Mathilda but Benjamin was right , there was no sign of the little minx . |