Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 2 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 3 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 4 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 5 | Fair gave me the ‘ ump she did . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 7 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 8 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 9 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 10 | just gave me the hint you see . |
| 11 | it was , ten pound , she just gave me the envelope and , it was a printed |
| 12 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 13 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 14 | Thing once told me the Ship flies very fast . |
| 15 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 16 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 17 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 18 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 20 | This at once gave me the idea for the experimental design I wanted . |
| 21 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 22 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 23 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 24 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 25 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , with all my lack of experience , the chairman of the division unhesitatingly gave me the responsibility for leading the mission , and it proved to be a turning point in my career . |
| 27 | Whenever a favourable opportunity offered , Captain McKellar obligingly allowed me the use of a boat , and by this means enabled me to collect nearly all the species of this interesting family that we fell in with … ’ |
| 28 | One management even offered me the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella . |
| 29 | Eleanor simply gave me the excuse I needed . |
| 30 | They simply gave me the means to share some sad , courageous and beautiful things . |