Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 2 | There were French , Arab and Jewish streets ; as I passed from one to another I felt I was crossing borders . |
| 3 | So I got into it through those channels … . |
| 4 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 5 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 8 | I nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 9 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 10 | I breakfasted at anything between eight-thirty and nine . |
| 11 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 12 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 13 | The ground itself is not as harsh as the words I felt beneath me for that one curious moment at the Treasury . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 15 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 16 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 17 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 18 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 19 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 20 | I thought of her in 1955 when I was in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau and saw hungry children huddled in corners of African huts . |
| 21 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 22 | I went across yours like that . |
| 23 | I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 25 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 26 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 27 | It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986 . |
| 28 | I spoke for us with blinding certainty . |
| 29 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 30 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |