Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 2 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 3 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 4 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 5 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 6 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 7 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 8 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 9 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 10 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 11 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 12 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 13 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 14 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 15 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 16 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 17 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 18 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 19 | The eyes of the Modigliani seemed to glare at me severely , so I sneaked out under the colonnade , where a minute later Conchis joined me . |
| 20 | There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock . |
| 21 | However , if anyone were misguided enough to give me authority , I would certainly misuse it , so I prayed along with the rest . |
| 22 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 23 | About eighty villagers followed me inside , and waited expectantly … so I struck out for the hinterlands . |
| 24 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 25 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 26 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 27 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 28 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 30 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |