Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 2 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 3 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 4 | I became vividly aware of this disturbing phenomenon while I was sitting deep in thought on Hammersmith Bridge this afternoon . |
| 5 | I became heavily involved in far left politics , becoming a member of the Socialist Students ' Alliance , the student leftovers of the IMG 's ( Internation Marxist Group 's ) move into the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 7 | As it happened , I was between Mayor Houde and Leveque ; as soon as the crowd that filled the stadium recognized the person of Mayor Houde a great roar of boos and hisses started up and I became slightly alarmed . |
| 8 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 9 | But the weaker I became physically , the more inadequate I felt . |
| 10 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 11 | It was only in 1977 that I became even vaguely aware of gay liberation . |
| 12 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 13 | Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave . |
| 14 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 15 | Now he was at home more Dad and I became closer . |
| 16 | I became incredibly vi er I had violent feelings erm , I wanted to go out on the street and rampage . |
| 17 | I was overlooked repeatedly , to such an extent that I became completely disgusted . |
| 18 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 19 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 20 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 21 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 22 | With this observation , I became increasingly interested in what other sorts of evidence alerts social workers to possible child abuse . |
| 23 | Every day that passed while Jean-Claude was away I became increasingly disorientated . |
| 24 | Yet once I started work I became increasingly absorbed . |
| 25 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 26 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 27 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 28 | Watching several of the video films of Highlander workshops I became forcibly aware of both broad and detailed comparisons of rural problems in Appalachia and the Scottish Highlands . |
| 29 | I see , simply , that at some point I became pathologically compliant . |
| 30 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |