Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 3 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 4 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 5 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 6 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 7 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 8 | and I got one on the C's . |
| 9 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 19 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |