Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 2 | She could discourse at great length on the history of Europe , illustrating how little I knew on this vast subject ( having ducked out of history lessons at the age of thirteen ) . |
| 3 | I have already said how little I knew about cancer , and I now began to brush up on it . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I 'd agree with that , from what little I knew of her , ’ said Helen . |
| 5 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 6 | The children under eleven I spoke to almost invariably had a sense of inferiority similar to that of a colonised people . |
| 7 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 8 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 9 | comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I yelled at you , Ruth . ’ |
| 11 | " I 'm sorry I yelled at you like a fish wife . |
| 12 | Then : " I 'm sorry I yelled at you , " he said , looking away from her . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry I yelled at you last night , Dad , ’ she said . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry I pounced on you before , ’ the dog told them . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry I lied to you yesterday . ’ |
| 16 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm real sorry I shouted at you . |
| 18 | And I 'm sorry I shouted at you . ’ |
| 19 | Then on June 15th I went to John 's from work and was told Clare had had an accident , but he could n't tell me how serious . |
| 20 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 21 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
| 22 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 23 | After that I went to bed ; I suppose it would be around midnight . ’ |
| 24 | And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern . |
| 25 | After that I went off music for a while . |
| 26 | After that I listened to my Walkman , and later talked to Ron . |
| 27 | A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes . |
| 28 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 29 | No I suppose they had but er I No that I knew of . |
| 30 | After that I dropped to 5 , 7 and out , but he sailed on magisterially . |