Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 3 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 4 | I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 6 | However — and it seemed to happen , or I became aware of it , quite suddenly — fatigue was setting in . |
| 7 | Was that when we did it , cos I did that with you did n't I in the afternoon , or I did some with somebody |
| 8 | It makes me want to puke , except I did enough of that last Saturday night ! |
| 9 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |
| 10 | It was a fearsome beast in a way although I felt sorry for it when Murchison was going to kill it . |
| 11 | Although I felt sorry for him , that prickliness in his manner made me reluctant to reveal myself . |
| 12 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 13 | well having said that , although I feel sorry for him I get annoyed with him ! |
| 14 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 15 | I began to feel he was mine , that I knew all about him . |
| 16 | It was years later that I knew all about it . |
| 17 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 18 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 19 | Roza had insisted that I sample some of the frivolities of Paris . |
| 20 | Not that I regret any of it , you understand , but it 's not an enviable state being someone 's mistress . |
| 21 | I 'm a creature of habit — in the way I have my hair cut , the suits I wear , the eternal brown boots that I get ribbed about and which are fleetingly seen by the viewers at the end of the programme as we come to the closing headlines . |
| 22 | ‘ The Queen herself has insisted that I get involved in all aspects of the negotiations at all levels . |
| 23 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 24 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 25 | With the new round of drinks , he insisted that I try one of his yellow cigarettes . |
| 26 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 27 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 28 | It is with shame that I write this to you who so well prophesied what has come to pass " . |
| 29 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 30 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |