Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind terribly if I stayed at home ? ’ |
| 2 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
| 3 | This second possibility was the one I preferred , especially since I saw on reflection that such ripples might produce some of the effects of the first possibility . |
| 4 | ‘ So when I went into labour I had n't really thought about whether or not to have an epidural . |
| 5 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 6 | ‘ It would probably be best if I started from square one , ’ the contact opened the proceedings by saying . |
| 7 | Soon after I came on board we finished loading . |
| 8 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 9 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 10 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 11 | Just before I went to bed , we heard the sound of a big gun on the marshes . |
| 12 | Called to identify the body just before I went off duty . |
| 13 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 14 | I fell asleep as soon as I got into bed , then woke to full wakefulness at three that afternoon . |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as I came on board . |
| 16 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 17 | And all the time , work going on internally while I wrestled with rigging and sails , mostly on the open deck . |
| 18 | They did n't play loud ; they played where they could hear each other in the studio , and that natural leakage — as I learned later when I got into engineering — actually helped to blend the tonal quality . ’ |
| 19 | It was night now and I turned for home , an awestruck child again , but joyful in the new world of understanding that had supplanted the dark , African fears . |
| 20 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 21 | Well I was here but I came during break time . |
| 22 | I FELL in love with jazz even before I fell in love with wine — I 'm talking about great , improvised , live jazz and , of course , great bottles of wine ; both darned hard to describe , poignantly ephemeral and profoundly moving experiences . |
| 23 | Well when I went to Citizen 's Advice tha that lady said I do n't think it 's viable to have four dogs in a semi- detached anyway ! |
| 24 | Well when I rang about news was it June last year , they were still at Harlow . |
| 25 | Well when I started to school I went to , back to school er I was eleven or er ten or eleven then , and I went to Field Road School that er what er Thomas 's , is it , was it school ? |
| 26 | But she was there when I was a boy and even when I went to school in Porthmadog . |
| 27 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 28 | I was n't allowed to meet his mother , even though I had in fact once been introduced to her on a street corner in Paris . |
| 29 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 30 | And I st when I started this aerobic class there was four girls up there that I went to school with in my class at school . |