Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 2 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 3 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 4 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 5 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 6 | So that was my life , I only had about two years in |
| 7 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 8 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 9 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 10 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 11 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 12 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 13 | Also I just played on six tunes on Bruce Hornsby 's new record , with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins . |
| 14 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 15 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I just bumped into some people , who knew some people … . |
| 17 | I just mentioned with that microphone . |
| 18 | I just stood on three bits when I come in . |
| 19 | I finally spent about 20 minutes just enjoying the VFR day , pottering round within sight of Breighton at about 1000 ft and occasionally putting the Aeronca into a tight turn over a copse , or a particular field , just for the sheer exhilaration of flying this aerial Citroen 2CV . |
| 20 | Sadie and I gradually learnt about each other . |
| 21 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 22 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 23 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 24 | He was the first guy I ever saw in military clothes before the main craze for the mods dressing up in military uniforms went on . |
| 25 | I want to forget all I ever knew about precious Miguelito . ’ |
| 26 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 27 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 28 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 29 | I left Trieste the following morning for Mavhinje and the house of my Aunt Ema , whom I always remembered with real affection . |
| 30 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |