Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 2 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 3 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 4 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 5 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 6 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 7 | It was amazing how quickly the weeks passed as I settled into the routine of life on Koraloona . |
| 8 | My scope increased and I cycled round the villages in search of paragraphs . |
| 9 | The lights changed and I let in the clutch . |
| 10 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 11 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 12 | The argument ended and I went into the shop . |
| 13 | ‘ Fortunately the traffic cleared and I got to the studio to start my show with two minutes to go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Imagine where my chin landed when I turned on his TV , called up Ceefax and saw my name on the screen . ’ |
| 15 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |