Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I rarely watched TV or read newspapers , my knowledge was scanty . |
| 2 | I duly contacted Memory Direct , who told me they could n't supply these modules , but very helpfully gave me Epson 's customer support line number . |
| 3 | I mostly enjoyed art and maths but I did not like P.E . |
| 4 | ‘ I basically managed district nurses , health visitors , school and family planning nurses , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I personally failed biology — but with all my kids , I can hardly claim it held me back … ! |
| 6 | I hope I only said parrot . |
| 7 | " And you , Acorn , you dog-eared , dung-faced disgrace to a gamekeeper 's gibbet ; if I only had time to tell you — " |
| 8 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 9 | I only had time to gasp in horror , before I saw that Heathcliff had caught him . |
| 10 | I only had time for fast food . |
| 11 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 12 | In fact I only had time now because I had left Rebecca parked in her pram outside the supermarket . |
| 13 | I only flicked water at you . |
| 14 | I only started work for the exam in February . ’ |
| 15 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 16 | Er , I only used custom because |
| 17 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 18 | I made sure I was well prepared before the big day and I especially took time in deciding my dress . |
| 19 | And fortunately I suddenly had inspiration , just at the last possible moment . |
| 20 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 21 | Well on that join I suddenly saw water rushing down the wall ! |
| 22 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 23 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 24 | I much preferred Startop , who was a pleasant , sensitive young man . |
| 25 | I scarcely had time to close it before he was upon me . |
| 26 | Without that , I just felt self-dislike . ’ |
| 27 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 28 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 29 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 30 | " I just had time to think " Thank God it was n't my teeth " . " |