Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 2 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 3 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |
| 4 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 5 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 6 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 7 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 8 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 9 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 10 | So if I went to talk to Jess |
| 11 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 12 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 13 | ‘ The Empress , and only because I refused to cower at her anger . |
| 14 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 15 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 17 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 18 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 19 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 20 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 21 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 22 | Hopeless , I walked towards the nearest town , which was further away than I cared to think about . |
| 23 | Oh no , it was just because I went to talk to my manager about it before I went and I went through my diary with him and everything . |
| 24 | Just after I 'd stepped under the shower , I heard him come up behind me . |
| 25 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 26 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 27 | ‘ … well , they got up and left so I thought I 'd clear their glasses as soon as I 'd finished with the man I was serving . |
| 28 | I intended to pick up my car and come over to see you as soon as I 'd talked to Bertelli , but when I got back here Lorenzini had this message from up near the fort . |
| 29 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 30 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |