Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
2 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
3 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
4 | Yeah , right I went in the playground . |
5 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
6 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
7 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
8 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
9 | ‘ Eventually I got onto the runway and found my wife . |
10 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
11 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
12 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
13 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
14 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
15 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
16 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
17 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
18 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
19 | Interestingly enough I looked into the same situation in America and Germany and in all three mighty industrial countries six out of the top ten firms had gone . |
20 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
21 | When we began to slow down I knocked on the door . |
22 | After the phone went down I sat in the garden like a very old terracotta gargoyle . |
23 | So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field . |
24 | So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died . |
25 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
26 | So I went with a much smaller firm . |
27 | So I went with the men to the large house where Judge Kerwin lived . |
28 | So I went with an open mind . |
29 | So I went across the street , phoned Peter and said , ‘ Okay , if you still want me , I 'll join . ’ |
30 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |