Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 2 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 3 | This is even more true if we wish to make generalisations of the kind I examined above with regard to the relative logic , objectivity and neutrality of whole systems . |
| 4 | being on the railway and er , you see , er and of course I went then under his pass I suppose Mr and Mrs then and er and then of course we started to er when my parents first died we , we started to get around . |
| 5 | Of course I dealt also with a large number of other factors , highways , environmental considerations , archaeology . |
| 6 | Of course I stayed overnight at the hotel and spent a good part of the following day placating the ruffled Emily , even though I felt sure she was not as disturbed as she made out . |
| 7 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 8 | I 've been really good this year , I have n't had any anything really except my Christmas present I had early from mummy and daddy and from nana . |
| 9 | In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 11 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 12 | If you balance the filth of the rumours or the sly hints and obnoxious asides of people like Robert and my agent against the decent , if romantic , dignities shown in the preceding paragraph and again in the portrayal of the girl I saw earlier on this night you can surely be left in no doubt as to where the weight of the truth fall . |
| 13 | The entranced girl I stood behind in the gallery at Covent Garden in June , nearly fainting in the heat — such a summer , that year — to hear Chaliapin in Prince Igor … |
| 14 | The bulge I swung beneath on pitch six of the Cavales West Ridge was one of those , I swear — but given V in the guide ! |
| 15 | For the moment I kept away from the university . |
| 16 | Through my job I learnt more about their mentality , their way of life , culture and traditions . |
| 17 | This account of the virtues of conventionalism falls in neatly with the difference I described earlier between agreement by convention and agreement in conviction , and also with recent philosophical explanations of what a convention is . |
| 18 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 19 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 20 | That evening I wrote again to Mrs Girdlestone and said I would come and see how things were with my aunt , and if possible arrange for something to be done . |
| 21 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 22 | Fahey and Narayanan , in a quotation I reproduced earlier from their book on ‘ environmental analysis ’ stressed that : |
| 23 | For a while I got deep into The Coasters and The Platters and all this old doo-wop stuff , and that somehow led to writing a song for Tin Machine 's second album . |
| 24 | One day I came home from training and Mum asked , ‘ How much do they pay you for all this running ? ’ |
| 25 | Every day I ventured forth on my series of jobs : guard on the railway , driver 's mate , window cleaner , warehouse assistant . |
| 26 | All around lay old and rusting tools and equipment , but among the junk I found almost at once two perfect aids : a tyre lever and a heavy mallet for driving in mooring pegs . |
| 27 | Er , in terms of training , commercial training and it 's not just the Fire and Rescue Service I spoke recently with the Chief Ambulance Officer , who 's experiencing the same problems . |
| 28 | Crawford was the first person I came across in all the rambles who immediately saw the historical value of JTR 's records . |
| 29 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 30 | ‘ The night I worked late on my own . |