Example sentences of "[num] [conj] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He left when I was 12 and I ran into him once . |
| 2 | sixty-four And I giggled at Problem Page |
| 3 | I started at half past six and I worked until two o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 5 | And he said well I 'm pretty sure , but he said fifty , fifty and I said to him , well I said you know , you think about it but I 'd already , sort of , made up my mind that I was n't gon na , sort of , next year anyway |
| 6 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 7 | She says : ‘ We emigrated to Australia when I was eight but I returned to England seven years ago to write songs and met Keith . ’ |
| 8 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 9 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 10 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 11 | But I got two thousand when I sailed with Flint — and it 's all safe in the bank at home . ’ |
| 12 | I did n't , I work , I started at half nine and I finished at half ten and I went to you know . |
| 13 | I saw this as a shortcoming of Annex 13 so I wrote to ICAO asking that the matter be dealt with at the meeting of the Accident Investigation and Prevention Division in 1974 . |
| 14 | I did n't , I work , I started at half nine and I finished at half ten and I went to you know . |
| 15 | It were only quarter past one and I finished at and I felt really |
| 16 | Say , well I 'm awfully sorry I 'm off at five but I got to be back at eight . |
| 17 | Can you please let me know what the position is with regard to order number 026 that I placed with you for the above tape to run it on VAX 3500 running ULTRIX , at either 6250 or 1600 bpi ? ( ordered on 12 May ) |
| 18 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 19 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 20 | I giant-stepped for a mile or two until I came upon a picture that is for ever engraved on the goggles of my mind . |
| 21 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 23 | The postcard has improved in quality as printing processes have developed , and the number of companies producing and distributing them seems to have multiplied by the hundred since I started in bookselling 15 years ago . |