Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I used to act , until I realized it was just a sham and I decided that it was time I was honest with myself . |
| 2 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 3 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 4 | The adrenaline was certainly pumping , but I realised it was just a matter of getting over those first few minutes . |
| 5 | I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness . |
| 6 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 7 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 8 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 9 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 10 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 12 | I decided it was n't a good place to be and left straightaway . |
| 13 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 14 | As a P.C. I felt I was not a success . |
| 15 | Symphony because I felt it was not the right tempo . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt it was quite an honour to be picked to represent Scotland ’ , he said . |
| 17 | I knew something was up the minute Tod started selling all the furniture . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I knew theirs was n't an entirely happy marriage , that there were quarrels , but it did n't occur to me that the cause lay outside the marriage . |
| 19 | As soon as I knew she was n't a hundred per cent , I just did n't want to know her … |
| 20 | ‘ I knew you were n't the composing machine they say you are . ’ |
| 21 | I knew you were n't the kind of woman I could conveniently disregard , as I 'd disregarded Celeste , and I certainly did n't want to become entangled with my team-mate 's girlfriend — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I respected you and I knew you were n't the kind of girl who slept around . |
| 23 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 24 | And I knew I was n't the only one . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew I was n't the only person in the world you 'd got the courage to shout at , ’ she says . |
| 26 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 27 | But even as I heard it , I knew it was not a revolver . |
| 28 | But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman . |
| 29 | I knew it was just a matter of getting the knack ! ’ |
| 30 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |