Example sentences of "i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 32 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 33 | I felt somewhat of a tragic character . |
| 34 | I wore one for a photo-session and it was great fun . |
| 35 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 36 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 37 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 38 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |
| 39 | I knew nothing about the event . |
| 40 | I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr 's history or the difficulty of the route , or even what it looked like . |
| 41 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 42 | I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’ |
| 43 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 44 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 45 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 46 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 47 | When I started the book in the summer of 1980 , I knew none of the East End skins . |
| 48 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 49 | I saw nothing of the scenery ; visibility was down to fifty yards . |
| 50 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 51 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 52 | Then I saw something on the ice in front of me . |
| 53 | I saw something on the television today it 's sitting there said they 've a cause about it |
| 54 | I often walked along the shore , and one day I saw something in the sand . |
| 55 | I 'd like to get a Martin D45 ; I saw one in a catalogue for $100,000 , which is a bit more than I would care to pay ! ’ |
| 56 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 57 | I dreamed something about a castle made of stone which is not stone … ’ |
| 58 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 59 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |
| 60 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |