Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was going to be a real bummer not having the little guy around to chat with while I single-handedly solved my cases . |
| 2 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 3 | I uneasily awaited his first question about my journalistic ambitions . |
| 4 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 5 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 6 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 7 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 8 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 9 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 10 | When I eventually reached his house we got out his canoe . |
| 11 | The postman handed me a letter as I eventually reached my Pop 's house — it was an offer of a council house . |
| 12 | The great problem I faced , when I eventually obtained my degree in zoology , was that to convert my childhood fascination into an adult career I would have to carry out experiments on animals . |
| 13 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 14 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 15 | I slowly shook my head . |
| 16 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 17 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 18 | When I started on my mental journey ; the way seemed to be dark and impossible , yet I slowly found my way ; and so can everyone else . |
| 19 | I rather liked her unabashed frankness . |
| 20 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 21 | So I merely downplayed my reply . |
| 22 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 23 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 24 | I was particularly distressed when I personally sanctioned his return to operational flying after a short period as an instructor at an OTU . |
| 25 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 26 | I gently prised my wrist free . |
| 27 | She did not resist as I gently opened her mouth . |
| 28 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 29 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 30 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |