Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police .
2 Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base .
3 And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern .
4 After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’
5 ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’
6 ‘ … after that I worked as a secretary .
7 I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's .
8 Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted .
9 As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest .
10 This I handed to a nurse , asking her to give it to the doctor before he saw Nigel .
11 All this I watched through a spyhole , under a workbench in a disused supply hut towards the birch wood , with blanket , kummel bottle — and rosary fingered like an abacus , as I counted them in .
12 The other half I sat in the Sheikha 's section trying to be as inconspicuous as possible .
13 When I was 12 I tunnelled into the side of the local canal and inserted a glass panel .
14 In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom .
15 In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates .
16 So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge !
17 When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness .
18 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’
19 How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple .
20 Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ?
21 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
22 Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ?
23 But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones .
24 So it was that just after 8.15 on the morning of Monday , May 6th , 1929 I arrived at the Times-Herald editorial offices and found the place locked up tight .
25 In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London .
26 In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher .
27 ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year .
28 Once at Number 112 I banged on the door with the palm of my hand and waited — I remember being surprised that the Trumpers did n't have a knocker .
29 I 'm very glad I went into the Red Lion . ’
30 You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman !
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