Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year !
2 I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away .
3 They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way .
4 Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden .
5 I always noticed how the pale , flecked breast and dark bands on the brown and white wings faded into each other as the buzzard rose higher and higher .
6 Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react .
7 Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level .
8 I quickly trod out the flickering twists of paper , and scrambled across to the door .
9 I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now .
10 I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings .
11 I later witnessed exactly the same procedure carried out in a Budapest café with such leisurely incompetence , that everything was completely waterlogged before they began .
12 I never knew where the second half of the clasp had gone .
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