Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 2 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 3 | Anyway , I was shattered and I went to bed . |
| 4 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 5 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 8 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 9 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 10 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 11 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 12 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 13 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 14 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 15 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 16 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 17 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 18 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 19 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 20 | Cos I tell you what I have got cos I went to an Indian reservation and I 've got a small carving which an Indian did for |
| 21 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 22 | Eagles boss Gary Hetherington said : ‘ It 's the best side I 've had since I came to the club . ’ |
| 23 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 24 | ‘ But I was really transformed when I went to Australia . |
| 25 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 26 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 27 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 28 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 29 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Imagine where my chin landed when I turned on his TV , called up Ceefax and saw my name on the screen . ’ |