Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 3 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 4 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 5 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 6 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 7 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 8 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 9 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 10 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 11 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 12 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 13 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 14 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 15 | I said nothing for a few seconds . |
| 16 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 17 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |