Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 2 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 3 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 4 | We had a great trip and I met lots of other children . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I met lots of different men at university but when I started work the opportunities for meeting single men were really limited . |
| 6 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 7 | I got it for six months , te |
| 8 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
| 9 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 10 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 11 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 12 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 13 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 14 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 15 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 16 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 17 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 18 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 19 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 20 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 21 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 22 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 23 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 24 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 25 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 26 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 27 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 28 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 29 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 30 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |