Example sentences of "[noun] i [adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
| 2 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 3 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 4 | Of course I never knew whether anybody understood very much of my verses . |
| 5 | Of course I never doubted that your excellent police force would catch the real culprit , but it must have cleared your mind . |
| 6 | Actually , she influenced every decision I ever made but I always felt she put a barrier between us . |
| 7 | But a glass key I never saw or heard of and can not imagine what use it might be ; it would shiver in any lock . ’ |
| 8 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 9 | It was the colour of a skirt I once had that he had specially liked . |
| 10 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the greatest bowler I ever faced or saw , and in my opinion certainly the best bowler Australia ever produced . ’ |
| 12 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 13 | When I first saw it I was confused by a strange surrealistic image of a place I both did and did not recognise . |
| 14 | When I was a little lad I always thought that the dilemma to be or not to be had something to do with choosing pencils ( surely 2B or not 2B ? ! ) |
| 15 | One lecture I recently attended and very much enjoyed was given by Doctor Norman Vance on the subject of ‘ Moralistic Females and Victorian Discontents ’ . |
| 16 | Squinting again along the left of the nose I suddenly realised that his head had become completely transparent ! |
| 17 | Erm at which meeting I also contacted or attacked four other people , one a solicitor , erm one running a sort of a a training centre , and two running businesses , one in sort of sales and marketing , and one in production . |
| 18 | I never told you I just everything 's going round in the room I just had and make the best of it . |
| 19 | Erm DOS Five was one of the best buys I ever made because |
| 20 | As the crest broke over my head I just wished that we had gone for plan B which was to have used a tandem bicycle for this trip . |
| 21 | She was the one person I really trusted but I felt she had lied and betrayed me . |
| 22 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 23 | In the beginning I just hoped and prayed that it would be over next week . |
| 24 | I can understand if they take time on a stray dog I often wondered if they realise |
| 25 | ‘ I was forced to face the fact that I was living with a woman I actually disliked and I had no one to blame but myself . |
| 26 | I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved . |
| 27 | The first man I ever saw and knew was , of course , my father . |
| 28 | ‘ He was the strongest man I ever knew but he went blind through the strain of smithing . |
| 29 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 30 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |