Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 2 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 3 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 4 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 5 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 6 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 7 | Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year . |
| 8 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 9 | Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school . |
| 10 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 11 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
| 12 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |
| 13 | When compared with the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion , however , injury grades II and III were reduced appreciably and injury grades 0 and I significantly increased in capsaicin pretreated rats ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 14 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 15 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 16 | And I really felt on edge walking back |
| 17 | But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door . |
| 18 | I knew she was n't far offshore , but I did n't know anything about the set of currents off Winter Marsh , and if I just rowed into darkness I might miss her altogether , and be carried anywhere . |
| 19 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 20 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 21 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |
| 22 | Yes , I was aware of him , but I never managed to lassoo him . |
| 23 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
| 24 | Your letter to Mrs. Evans of ‘ March was sent on to me because I recently wrote about cycle barriers in the ‘ Spokes ’ magazine , which she saw . |
| 25 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 26 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 27 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 28 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 29 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 30 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |