Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [subord] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sudden misery enveloped me as I drove over to the gate leading into the field . |
| 2 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | I reported them when I went up but whether there was any success in the things I just do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ I found him when I came back from lunch . |
| 5 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 6 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 7 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 8 | He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom , he told me as I sat down opposite . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes it seemed like he was breaking the club transfer record every week , but he told me if I kept on doing it I was safe . ’ |
| 10 | But I believed him before I found out about him and Silvia . |
| 11 | ‘ I received it as I came out this morning and I did n't have time to open it . ’ |
| 12 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 13 | Then suddenly I got a bit more confidence , I felt better about my weight , my husband encouraged me as I started out in various career directions , and goals actually began to emerge . |
| 14 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 15 | As on Friday , no one seemed to notice me and certainly no one challenged me as I walked through to Patterson 's office whistling cheerfully ( a Tommy Smith riff which I wished I could transfer from his tenor sax to my battered trumpet ) and holding a plan of the air-conditioning system out in front of me . |
| 16 | Even that surprised me until I found out afterwards that George had known about it all along ; I suppose they did n't want to risk him bringing it up first . |
| 17 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 18 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 19 | I heard it when I come in did n't I ? |
| 20 | The stink of the place hit me as I went in . |
| 21 | ‘ The funny side hit me when I woke up this morning . |
| 22 | It hit me when I phoned up and they said those two had gone . |
| 23 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 24 | Yes , I remember , I saw them when I woke up and I thought … |
| 25 | " I saw them when I flew over yesterday . " |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him when I went down to make myself a cup of tea , just letting himself out the door he was . ’ |
| 27 | Like a young Robeson , with that tremendously wide face , yes , I saw him as I came up . |
| 28 | that was the fronts , I never liked them when I moved in |
| 29 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 30 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |