Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 2 | Both of these activities I enjoyed very much , but maths was a torture ! |
| 3 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 4 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 5 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 6 | When I eventually reached the gods I hesitated , afraid to push the door open , but after a couple of minutes I became too frightened to stand there in the dark any longer . |
| 7 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 8 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 9 | At times I went almost mad , talking gibberish , pulling faces , and singing in mock Latin . |
| 10 | There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home . |
| 11 | During Nigel 's second period in hospital , in between the times I spent there , I set about arranging his funeral . |
| 12 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 13 | It was not long before a low whistle called us to where Valdemar stood , and he pointed : on a branch about six metres above us sat one of the most magnificent birds I had ever seen . |
| 14 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 15 | Individual teachers and researchers will , of course , form their own conclusions from the available evidence , backed up by their own experience ; conclusions which could put this particular ‘ explanation ’ into either of the two groups I described above . |
| 16 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 17 | The strategy of key characteristics involved rating certain characteristics more strongly in either direction than others , for instance ‘ using the strongest words as a guide to an overall score and ignoring the weaker contradictory ones ’ or ‘ weighed up which characteristics I considered most important , i.e. whether trustworthiness was more important to me than politeness ’ . |
| 18 | There are a number of different ways of measuring attitude , the two methods I found most useful were the Likert and Semantic-Differential scales . |
| 19 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 20 | Erm in cases of infirmity pensions , erm ill health retirements I mentioned previously the increases apply there from the very start so irrespective of the age in infirmity case the erm the increase does apply . |
| 21 | He was heading towards the baths I had just left . |
| 22 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 23 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 24 | During the decade after the war , immigration , most particularly from the West Indies , rose sharply in response to the employment opportunities I mentioned earlier . |
| 25 | During the six months I spent there I realised how important it was to adapt quickly . |
| 26 | In the next few months I studied hard with Mr Pocket , who was always a most kind and helpful teacher . |
| 27 | For many months I watched carefully for the smoke from fires , but I did n't see anything . |
| 28 | During those months I worked hard on my cave and my house and my fence . |
| 29 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 30 | One of the books I re-read forever is ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ and another is ‘ Treasure Island ’ and these , to me , are the great examples of the plain style , I could n't write in a baroque style . |