Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun sg] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little voice , a nasty , calculating little voice whispered in my ear that one day I 'm going to need a reference from Swallow . ’ |
| 2 | And for a moment despair was overwhelmed by something more lively : by a sensation of such disgust that for just that one moment I was almost galvanized into rebellion . |
| 3 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 4 | Nicknames are a favourite pastime with small boys and so during the next four years and one term I was known to my school mates as ‘ Pavement ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But one day I was sitting at home , doodling around the 12th fret and trying to figure out how I could play in a minor key without having to retune the guitar . |
| 6 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 7 | But one thing I was impressed with was the friendliness of everybody and the obvious joy that everybody felt . |
| 8 | But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was . |
| 9 | I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 ! |