Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 2 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 3 | Slowly I unfolded the thick paper and spread it flat in front of me . |
| 4 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 5 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 6 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly I heard the guttural roar of fire from my studio above . |
| 8 | Suddenly I realized the awful truth . |
| 9 | When I got halfway I heard the angry voice of the French maid saying very aggressively : ‘ You got nobody like Napoleon ! ’ |
| 10 | Basically I had the wrong equipment at Reading '88 . |
| 11 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 12 | Perhaps I had the same look once , though I 've lost it now . |
| 13 | Perhaps I had the wrong expectations . |
| 14 | so I had the older ones from Goose Hill |
| 15 | So I said the only thing he would believe . |
| 16 | so I said the next best thing I said is ring Sarah and she said she 'd already sent a gift , no have a conversation with her , is Lorraine coming today , no she said Terry 's decorating never said where |
| 17 | It 's for our new one again you see so I rolled the front seat down put my brief case on the front seat so he says , where 's your van then mate ? |
| 18 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 19 | not re no , no , listen , listen , no listen , listen , listen , it 's not , wait a minute , no , right , it was up there , we thought it was hers but it was n't hers , so I took the wrong one |
| 20 | So I thought the shorter journey would be better . |
| 21 | So I ran the real one through the xerox , got the stamp on that , then filled it in with a ‘ balance ’ of over £1,000 . |
| 22 | The trouble was I started wanting to play straight-ahead rock and heavy metal and so I left the traditional blues stuff on the back burner . |
| 23 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 24 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 25 | So I Nureyeved the front steps and flowed through the door in a single motion of Yale and Chubb . |
| 26 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 27 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 28 | So I chose the young , handsome builder who was working on our house . |
| 29 | So I spent the 4 weeks living in a style to which I was not accustomed , but found no difficulty in adopting ! |
| 30 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |