Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Germany there is more emphasis on technical skills and I learned bricklaying while completing my education . |
| 2 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 3 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 4 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
| 5 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 6 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 7 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 8 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 9 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 10 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 11 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 12 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 13 | ‘ He did make things difficult for a few minutes and I did consider having him fired from the chamber . |
| 14 | I could get to the car-park in a few minutes if I wanted to and be near him , thinking of him — his problems over , lying on the brown eiderdown in his blue pyjamas . |
| 15 | Then I walked across empty fields for some hours until I reached a village . |
| 16 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 17 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 18 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 19 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 20 | Some months after I spoke to Feroza I learnt that she had had to return to Pakistan . |
| 21 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 22 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 23 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 24 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 25 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 26 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 27 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 28 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 29 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 30 | Like Paula , I thought they were old ledgers and I did n't take much notice . |