Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 2 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 3 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 4 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 5 | I lived there until I was six . ’ |
| 6 | After play , Bucknor said : ‘ I consulted today after I was encouraged to do so . |
| 7 | Well I , well I got here and I was hot . |
| 8 | I got home and I felt that 's it ! |
| 9 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 10 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 11 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 12 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 13 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I moved there when I was sixteen , ’ he drawled . |
| 15 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 16 | I mentioned earlier that I encountered a problem with the bass E string , but it 's something that can be easily rectified . |
| 17 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 18 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
| 19 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 20 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 21 | I felt when I came here that I was going backwards . |
| 22 | I did try , I was gon na try before I came here but I was . |
| 23 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 24 | Although I was born at Sleetburn further up the dale , I came here when I was three years old , so I do not recall any other place as home . |
| 25 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I came here because I took a liking to the place and the people . |
| 27 | ‘ I came here because I married a Cornishman . |
| 28 | I came home and I have never done anything like it since . |
| 29 | So I came home and I goes |
| 30 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |