Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 2 | Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday . |
| 3 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 4 | From its shelter the Corporal and I stuck our snouts up . |
| 5 | The old man turned the key and I saw my chance . |
| 6 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 7 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 8 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 9 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 10 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 11 | He pounded along the passage and I heard his shouts in the Kitchen " Tristan ! |
| 12 | can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist |
| 13 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 14 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal — Yes , it was the one I 'd dreamt the night before I got my results . |
| 15 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 16 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 17 | He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp . |
| 18 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 19 | He came out of the phone-box and I pushed my bicycle beside him through the crowds . |
| 20 | I locked the shed again and jogged as far as the bridge while I got my breath back . |
| 21 | A big , flat coal barge was passing under the bridge and I averted my eyes from the sight of it . |
| 22 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 23 | The morning after I received your letter , Monsieur Lemarchand . ’ |
| 24 | On 1 November , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and I announced our decision — to which the hon. Member for Caerphilly referred — to exclude the area of the inland bay as defined in the Bill from further consideration as part of the area proposed as a special protection area . |
| 25 | She was too upset to continue the call and I regretted my decision . |
| 26 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 27 | And I , I was issued with that and er I took lessons on it up at head at headquarters and then when I took me proficiency test , I was asked questions on the Browning automatic and other ap things appertaining to the army and I passed me proficiency test . |
| 28 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 30 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |