Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 2 | I nodded , and she closed her eyes and I saw her shoulders slump a little . |
| 3 | , I 'm on antibiotics cos I got my . |
| 4 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
| 5 | We sat round the fire with our leftovers and I answered their questions about the day 's events . |
| 6 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 7 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 8 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 9 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 10 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 11 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 12 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 13 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd pet ( the mice ) ‘ em , and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they were dead — because they were so little ’ |
| 15 | My history teacher , who was a liberal , joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue . |
| 16 | Well that 's the best thing , cos I 'm on a case a couple of weeks and I rang your police on Friday night |
| 17 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 18 | Pushing myself up off the wet ground , I brushed the twigs and earth off my trousers while I checked my pockets . |
| 19 | It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated . |
| 20 | It is years since I risked my neck . |
| 21 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 22 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |
| 23 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 24 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 25 | I saw a lot of both her and John in those days as I saw my parents most weekends and they often went round on Sundays as well . |
| 26 | " One night , " said Carter , " I started to thumb through its pages and I called my wife , Rosalyn , and I called my daughter , Amy , who climbed into my lap , and we spent several hours studying the beautiful history that this book portrays of Persian , of Iran , of its people … " |
| 27 | He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp . |
| 28 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 29 | as you say like there 's something funny about cats cos I opened my wardrobe yesterday to get a coat out . |
| 30 | It may sound too banal to talk about but I have n't owned anything that merited so much fussy concern from experts since I sold my 1964 Jaguar 340 . |