Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to back down the stairs but Nelly kept hold of my frock and prevented me . |
| 2 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 3 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 4 | I walked in there into the er geography room and erm this chap turned round and said hello Miss . |
| 5 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 6 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 7 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 8 | Sure enough , I went over there with the other inspectors and we said to the sergeants : ‘ Fall in the men . ’ |
| 9 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 10 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 11 | Determined not spend my life in this manner , I continued to reapply to the postgraduate art courses . |