Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that instant I learnt a lesson I have never forgotten : never , ever use a camera that you have not tested , ’ |
| 2 | B before I became a councillor I did n't really realize about the three tiers of local democracy . |
| 3 | When Paul says : ‘ When I became a man I put away the things of children ’ , he does not mean rejecting the innocence , the sparkle and the insights of youth . |
| 4 | Maybe the sentence was a bit short but I 've served my time on remand , I 've been in prison six times and have served about thirteen weeks altogether , but I do think they made a mistake I do n't know why . |
| 5 | Maybe the sentence was a bit short but I 've served my time on remand , I 've been in prison six times and have served about thirteen weeks altogether , but I do think they made a mistake I do n't know why . |
| 6 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 7 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 8 | Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar . |
| 9 | You — everything about you — presented a complication I did n't need in my life . ’ |
| 10 | I remembered a phrase I had once copied down out of Don Quixote : |
| 11 | Well I 've er , I 've er fibre I 've a fibre underneath and a feather cos , when I had a fibre I do n't know why , but me ears seemed to be deaf every morning |
| 12 | If she had a husband I did n't want to know him . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a lovely evening , my dear Watson , ’ said a voice I knew well . |
| 14 | And , presumably you had an Aborigine I do n't know , it 's very odd . |