Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 2 | An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey . |
| 3 | He said : I am concerned that an incident like this happened but I am confident that our security measures worked well |
| 4 | Depressingly , this meant that I was within sight , sound and smell of their superior rations , bacon-burgers , goulash , and bolognese . |
| 5 | This meant that I was free to respond to the effects that developed as I worked and I got a feel both for the subject and the pastels I was using . |
| 6 | The inevitable happened and I was off , dangling upside down on the end of the rope seconds later , 30 feet below , parallel to my climbing companions . |
| 7 | Soaps , no it 's alright your dad 's taken it , oh Basil going to call again , this all happened when I was out . |
| 8 | ‘ It all began before I was born , ’ she said , unaware that she was twisting her hands tightly together in her lap . |
| 9 | " This all began when I was fifteen . |
| 10 | They all died when I was nine . ’ |
| 11 | It was also at Canberra Primary School in White City that I first realized that I was black . |
| 12 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 13 | Erm , I first went when I was about twenty five and I used to go every year from then on |
| 14 | Jeffrey : When I first recognized that I was homosexual , I could recognize my feelings but I did n't know actually what you were supposed to do — not just to meet people , that was difficult enough , but I did n't know what to do physically . |
| 15 | A reflective dream of my own occurred when I was in the midst of writing my doctorate on the role of REM sleep in consolidation of memories . |