Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 2 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 3 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 4 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 5 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 6 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 7 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 8 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 9 | I just mentioned with that microphone . |
| 10 | Sadie and I gradually learnt about each other . |
| 11 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 12 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 13 | I want to forget all I ever knew about precious Miguelito . ’ |
| 14 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 15 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 16 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 17 | I left Trieste the following morning for Mavhinje and the house of my Aunt Ema , whom I always remembered with real affection . |
| 18 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 19 | This , I quickly discovered from liberal rugby followers , was the disappointing result that might finally shake South African rugby 's Afrikaaner establishment to the core . |
| 20 | I was about to dive back in among the hops , though I probably smelled like last night 's barmaid already , when the Shogun veered off to my right , and then pulled up about twenty feet from me . |
| 21 | I also learnt of untoward knock on effects and serious concerns about fragmentation and dis-enfranchisement . |
| 22 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 23 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 24 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 25 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 26 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 27 | ‘ I started off by prosecuting in drugs cases and I then dealt with major VAT fraud cases ’ . |
| 28 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 29 | I actually went with this girl to a little hotel . |
| 30 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |