Example sentences of "[subord] i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 10 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |