Example sentences of "[subord] i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 2 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 3 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 4 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I said , " Yes-sir ? " as if I still worked for Hatch & Hodges . |
| 8 | How would it look if I suddenly disappeared for weeks — leaving a gap that other people would have to fill — because my wife 's grandmother is ill on the other side of the world ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 15 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
| 16 | It was waiting for me when I recently returned from Namibia where lesbians and gay men are isolated and unrecognized , and have no solidarity network . |
| 17 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 18 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 21 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 22 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 23 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 24 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 25 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 26 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 27 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |