Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 2 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 3 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 4 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 5 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 6 | And also when I took the measurement , I took actually took it |
| 7 | She looked alarmed , and even though I knew the significance of this rite , because Nour had told me , for a moment I shared her confusion , her small anxiety at the thought of the violence of that long-past nuptial night . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought long and hard before I left the NHS to move into the private sector . |
| 9 | I see now how wrong I was , and yet when I told the king that without resorting to such action I would still be in the granite quarries and so unable to do his bidding , he understood and forgave me . |
| 10 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 11 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 12 | But not before I saw the speedometer register over 100 mph and decided to fasten my seat belt . |
| 13 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 14 | Teacher says it 's disgraceful But even if I had the time , I feel too tired . |