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

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1 I learnt something of the joys , frustrations and bitterness of their lives .
2 ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details .
3 I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study .
4 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
5 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
6 I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess .
7 Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want .
8 I said something to the lads , I do n't know what , like your people had caught up with him …
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