Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This , I quickly discovered from liberal rugby followers , was the disappointing result that might finally shake South African rugby 's Afrikaaner establishment to the core . |
| 32 | A happy working relationship is vital , and Jane and I quickly arrived at joint decisions about the project , choosing the clothes I would wear — light jacket , dark blue shirt and jeans — and deciding against the use of corny props ‘ appropriate ’ to my profession , such as books , a typewriter , or a bottle . |
| 33 | I was about to dive back in among the hops , though I probably smelled like last night 's barmaid already , when the Shogun veered off to my right , and then pulled up about twenty feet from me . |
| 34 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |
| 35 | I would n't buy anything unless it had the British Standard kitemark on it to show it was safety approved , and I also went for reputable makes , taking cost into consideration , too , of course . |
| 36 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 37 | I also spent about three months vetting requests for enquiries . |
| 38 | And I also felt about twelve years old . |
| 39 | I also learnt of untoward knock on effects and serious concerns about fragmentation and dis-enfranchisement . |
| 40 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 41 | I also put in some choices that only SF readers were likely to recognise : Hugo Gernsback ( an early pulp-publisher ) , Clifford Simak ( a prolific SF writer ) , and Stanislaw Lem ( the foremost Polish SF author ) . |
| 42 | I also talked to general practitioners , practice staff , officers of family health services authorities and district and regional health authorities , hospital consultants , academics , nurses , and patients . |
| 43 | I also worked on twelve fences , trying very hard to find some sort of pattern . |
| 44 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 45 | John Gaskins and I both succeeded on Magnetic Fields ( F8b ) . |
| 46 | I had a lot of spare time , and from leading a steady life in my bedroom with my radio , and with my parents downstairs , I now wandered among different houses and flats carrying my life-equipment in a big canvas bag and never washing my hair . |
| 47 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 48 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 49 | I strongly disagreed with both arguments . |
| 50 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 51 | ‘ I then went to various museums and institutes . |
| 52 | ‘ I started off by prosecuting in drugs cases and I then dealt with major VAT fraud cases ’ . |
| 53 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 54 | I actually went with this girl to a little hotel . |
| 55 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 56 | I never heard of these scripts again and they were never broadcast to my knowledge , but , for whatever interest they may have , I included one of them in my collection of short stories , scripts and plot summaries under the title ‘ Bits and Pieces ’ to be published one day . |
| 57 | I never wrote to that box number . |
| 58 | ‘ I never played with other children and I did n't have any friends . |
| 59 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 60 | Hey d' ya know I never realized till last week |