Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 2 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 3 | I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly I felt detached from the baby . |
| 5 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 6 | No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything . |
| 7 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 8 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 9 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 10 | So I had to stand outside the door |
| 11 | So I had to walk from the , you know the flats half way down Ashton Lane ? |
| 12 | I think so I said said to the bloke before |
| 13 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 14 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 15 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 16 | So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day . |
| 17 | ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits . |
| 18 | So I happened to say to the footman , I say : |
| 19 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 20 | Then for twice that long I sat twitching on the shower 's deck , the silver snout tuned to full heat and heft but doing nothing much to wash off my rot . |
| 21 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 22 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 23 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
| 24 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
| 25 | But I totally disagree with what she said in that erm yesterday I sat glued to the television most of the day , really to keep myself up to date on what was going on , erm I also have a baby but I managed to keep him occupied as well as take him out for a walk and give him his lunch and what have you . |
| 26 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 27 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 28 | Clearly I connected eating with the beneficence of nature ( the sun , the products of the earth ) and with friendship , companionship and community . |
| 29 | Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it . |
| 30 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |