Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
2 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
3 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
4 It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father .
5 and I got one on the C's .
6 I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms .
7 Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not .
8 ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details .
9 Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off .
10 Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit .
11 I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park .
12 When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal .
13 I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time .
14 I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘
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