Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 2 | Off he went ; he must have persuaded my mother because when I eventually did get home , she did n't put up any resistance . |
| 3 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 4 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 5 | Up until the solo I just had to think constantly as I was playing . |
| 6 | I just had to come earlier . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just had to get away , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 9 | And er but it was only about half past five I did n't I never stopped till the I just kept going now tha well about half past four , I started to pack up and I realized my sandwiches were still in my snack box so I I 'd I 'd had one one earlier on whilst I was still working but yes the lady there she made us a couple of cups in the morning , er cu cup of coffee , I think about what yeah about half ten time but the time I painted a little bit and I thought oh I 'll stop and have a fag , with my coffee and I had a cup of tea later on in the afternoon but er I did n't stop , I kept going , you know and then course by time I got to my drink , it was cold it was cool , so you drink it straight down |
| 10 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 11 | I just kept working harder and harder as I did n't want to let anyone down and I did n't believe I would pick up a drink again . |
| 12 | I just got carried away . ’ |
| 13 | I just wanted to get away . |
| 14 | I used to smoke , but I just stopped smoking altogether |
| 15 | I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in . |
| 16 | I desperately wanted to work there |
| 17 | I soon learned to say as little as possible , meanwhile doing my best to cultivate a London or ‘ Cockney ’ accent , which my parents took great pains both to prevent and to correct . |
| 18 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 19 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 20 | ‘ And of course I always had to argue instead and make things worse . ’ |
| 21 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's such a lovely house , your father and I always enjoyed going there . |
| 23 | I mean the erm I still had to have completely new guttering in the summer because you can not get anything to mend the other walls because it 's the wrong side ! |
| 24 | The billeting troubles seemed very minor compared to my happiness , but Wendy and I still had to find somewhere to live . |
| 25 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 26 | I still enjoyed playing again but even now I 'm feeling very tired . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 28 | I found myself sitting between two young officers , both of whom I quickly came to know well . |
| 29 | Okay now erm , there 's a slight change of plan because er following one or two of the classes last week I realized that erm I had n't made myself very well understood last week and er what came back from one or two people was rather garbled , and really it 's my own fault because I probably tried to do too much too quickly and as a result perhaps er did n't make myself clear . |
| 30 | Sheila Williams , however , appeared less willing to cooperate than her colleagues : ‘ I willingly agreed to come here , Inspector — you know that . |