Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] my " in BNC.

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1 A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA .
2 The granny table where I ate my toast was now a cocktail cabinet , with studded plastic , three high stools , a Manhattan skyline of siphons and shakers .
3 I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades .
4 Where I made my mistake was in not checking back with his number in Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest .
5 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
6 Leaving the main building at bedtime , I walked back through the old walled garden , the churchyard , and down the grassy lane to the cottage annexe where I had my room .
7 I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business .
8 I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet .
9 where I showed my hand too soon ,
10 Do n't you remember that lunch we had , where I lost my temper ?
11 Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) .
12 where I did my placement .
13 I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night .
14 By train to Bologna ( where I bought my hiking boots ) , by truck to Rovereto ; thenceforward we moved in daily spurts of twenty or twenty-five miles , always accompanied or monitored , from village to village , farm to farm , on foot , by cart , in preposterous automobiles .
15 Again , although I felt my ability allowed me to play well enough , I think my lack of live experience held me back a bit , and it was n't until the gig with Whitesnake that I felt totally comfortable with the situation . ’
16 Although I knew my way to the shelter very well , I almost got lost this time .
17 Although I did my best not to , something of my scepticism must have betrayed itself , for Mr Farraday then added , as though for reassurance , that were it to prove necessary , then an additional member of staff could be hired .
18 " Although I did my utmost to preserve an emotional detachment " , he writes , " I found again and again that the material under my hands was strangely alive ; it spoke to my condition in the most uncanny way . "
19 Although I terminated my business , I had to keep the photocopier going , ’ says Anne Orchardson .
20 It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me !
21 It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa .
22 But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’
23 We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently .
24 It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic .
25 I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes .
26 He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned .
27 You did n't tell him that I got my
28 I felt like murmuring the verses about Judas going out and hanging himself , and that he should go and do likewise , but Benjamin looked so quietly pleased with himself that I bit my tongue .
29 It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area .
30 I hope that I chose my words with some care ; I do not want to add to them .
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