Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little I cared then who saw me . |
| 2 | Wearily I trailed back into the house . |
| 3 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 4 | Very humbly I said how grateful I was , since I was only a surgeon . |
| 5 | Mostly I got on with her . ’ |
| 6 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 7 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 8 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 9 | Slowly I reached out to my open door and pulled it shut . |
| 10 | Slowly I got up and drew some long breaths . |
| 11 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
| 12 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 13 | Oh oh right I 'd better turn this thing off now erm |
| 14 | Right I 'd better keep them then cos they 're different |
| 15 | Right I measured well it 's seven kilometres apart so I measured the distance between them . |
| 16 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 17 | Oh right I did n't , I thought I just left it there . |
| 18 | Luckily I learnt early on that whereas I might see there are all sorts of emotional issues that the person grieving could work on , they may well choose not to . |
| 19 | The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then . |
| 20 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 21 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 22 | Luckily I did n't lose the baby , so of course I 'm very happy about that . " |
| 23 | Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings . |
| 24 | I wanted to go home so eventually I ran away . |
| 25 | At the airport he kept looking back as we were walking towards our plane ; eventually I looked back too and saw an attractive young woman hurrying along after us . |
| 26 | Eventually I came out of the leeward shadows into ‘ the gleaming halls of morn ’ and , bliss at last , walked on firm snow instead of haggling through heather . |
| 27 | eventually I went up and I tried to get him to go down to sleep again , and he was shutting his eyes and on his dummy , but he was |
| 28 | Eventually I went along to meetings at Community House ; then the gay discos . |
| 29 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 30 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |