Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 3 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 4 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 5 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 6 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 7 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 8 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 9 | When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal . |
| 10 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 11 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |