Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
| 2 | Eventually I decided that assimilation was not possible , given Culler 's lack of interest in the interpretation of particular texts and his commitment to the uncovering of the generalized principles of literariness . |
| 3 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
| 4 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 5 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 6 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
| 7 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
| 8 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 9 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 10 | So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’ |
| 11 | I was lucky Nick and she was pretty Ellen , and so I ordered another bottle of the sticky white wine and we let our dreams take wings . |
| 12 | But to qualify for that you 've had , you 've actually got to be a councillor for six years , so I got half way there , |
| 13 | So I related this tale and , while the audience responded warmly , stole a glance to my left . |
| 14 | So I sent that piece under the impression that there would be no problem having it accepted and that afterwards we would see how the public reacted to it . |
| 15 | So I wrote this essay |
| 16 | There was no announcement made at the end of the programme so , and they never got back to me , so I rang this morning first thing and last night they did n't ask me my name and address , but this morning they did . |
| 17 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 18 | So I borrowed some money and bought a store of my own , a tiny place , a cigar store , but in the right part of town , and in the right part of the right part of town . |
| 19 | Line bites continued , then at one o'clock I had another bite , again it was a drop bite . |
| 20 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 21 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 22 | Literally I cried that night and then I did n't cry again . |
| 23 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 24 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 25 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 26 | So anyway I found this doctor and said to the receptionist : ‘ I 've had a bad back . |
| 27 | Finally I added this custom icon to an Articles palette containing others useful for such documents . |
| 28 | Coolly I ordered another drink , and swivelled on my stool . |
| 29 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 30 | Yesterday I did another radio mix , just the kind of dodgy old thing you 'd do in your bedroom , and they were videoing it . |