Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 2 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 3 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 4 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 5 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 6 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 7 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 8 | The instructors were all trained in the UK and could not have been more helpful when I asked at very short notice whether I could fly their Archer for £34 . |
| 9 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 10 | She looked startled when I snapped at her : ‘ What have they worked out ? ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them . |
| 12 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 13 | I felt really emotional as I gazed at her , realising how fast my pretty little girl was growing up . |
| 14 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |