Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment of jubilation I realised that my own philosophy on life and that of football management go hand in foot . |
| 2 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 3 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 4 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 5 | I noticed that my swaying foot had rubbed against him , leaving a dusty mark on his navy trousers . |
| 6 | Steve was in the lead , on the Fourth Brittle Ice Thing , when I noticed that my left crampon had broken . |
| 7 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 8 | They were perfectly civil but I sensed that my private engagements had a pretty low priority . |
| 9 | Later , to my surprise , I heard that my own letters were still in existence . |
| 10 | I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport . |
| 11 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 12 | Just then I felt that my unspoken liberation , symbolised by the backpack , was a criticism of their trapped unemployed state . |
| 13 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 14 | He was speaking very casually , but I saw that his right hand , like mine , was shaking . |
| 15 | Then I saw that his bloodless lips were pulled back from his huge white teeth … |
| 16 | Suddenly my eyes opened wide : I saw that my faded garment was being hung in the closet next to four well-tailored officers ' overcoats , gold stars shining on pale blue epaulets , the insignia of the AVO , the state security police . |
| 17 | I thought that my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth , East was extremely eloquent about the importance of levelling the playing field between the private and public sectors . |
| 18 | I said that my hon. Friend 's arguments were always powerful , persuasive and seductive and he has just demonstrated that fact once again . |
| 19 | Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB . |
| 20 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 21 | I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way . |