Example sentences of "[adv] i [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 2 | I quickly discovered that this fish was quite happy for me to take him in my hand , and from that day on I never used a net to catch him , just a hand and a plastic bowl to put him in . |
| 3 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 4 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 5 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 6 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 7 | So then I just had a drive round all the sites . |
| 8 | Any suggestions on where to get the book book because now once again the Dillons I 'll be getting my plane ticket ready to go home and then I also wrote a cheque with this one , one book store out at er erm , I forget the name of it , but it 's out at er Finchley Road , it 's supposed to specialize in |
| 9 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
| 10 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 11 | It was a small , stuffy room , and yet I distinctly felt a chill in the air , like a draught , and I knew that it must be coming from that other world my uncle had told me about , and that the threshold to it was somewhere very close at hand . |
| 12 | He asked why I never took a case in Benedict 's Private Wing . |