Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 2 | Back to London , pick up where I left off , more crimes and misdemeanours , more Anthony Stewarts and the commonplace killings that proceed from a lifetime of domestic loathing , or lust , or rivalry , or greed . |
| 3 | ‘ The point is — do I want to take up where I left off ? ’ |
| 4 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 5 | Jeffrey : My first sexual encounters were in South Wales , where I grew up . |
| 6 | ‘ Not round where I grew up , they 're not , ’ Cashman said . |
| 7 | It is compatible with Windows , but if you 've got Windows would you need another system of file management ? and is n't that where I came in ! |
| 8 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 9 | I was at a meeting in London yesterday where I handed over my report . ’ |
| 10 | So it was an immediate retreat to Fort William for celebratory pakora and a chicken breast curry , where I changed out of my walking gear into some jeans to look like a local . |
| 11 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes I ask myself what have I done with my career , ’ she jokes , ‘ coming back to do rep , exactly where I started off . |
| 13 | We called at Brigade H.Q where I picked up my bagpipes . |
| 14 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 15 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 16 | Which meant I probably was like awake to start with , because I , although I got up at seven , I still was n't ready to go to bed at eleven , cos it was still too early , and usually I go to bed about two . |
| 17 | I was shocked , angry and frightened and , although I walked out of that courtroom with my life in pieces , there was nobody there to help me . |
| 18 | Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it . |
| 19 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 20 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so annoyed that I blurted out : ‘ Good God ! |
| 22 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 23 | I felt so dizzy looking up that I fell over . |
| 24 | That 's just some very interesting talk that I heard about , and one with erm , the porters and erm , . |
| 25 | So you had to choose that er , you have to do that and the fifth thing that I wrote down here which I had to do , a sequence er , of work . |
| 26 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 27 | ‘ None that I knew about , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 28 | I was so surprised to see Ken , so relieved , that I rushed over and gave him a kiss . |
| 29 | I put on that your newsletter that I sent round in York er to tell staff we were going for it again , so you know th |
| 30 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |