Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
2 | Eventually I decided that assimilation was not possible , given Culler 's lack of interest in the interpretation of particular texts and his commitment to the uncovering of the generalized principles of literariness . |
3 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
4 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
5 | Then a little further on I heard English voices ahead , and called out . |
6 | I mean there 's a , there was a programme on I watched last night , on the sea or ? |
7 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
8 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
9 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
10 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
11 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
12 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
13 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
14 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
15 | It was a Top 30 of contemporary records , but the new entries were very unlikely , and obviously I favoured certain musicians , like T. Rex . |
16 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
17 | and mum had two glass fulls , but she did n't drink hers so I had four glass fulls . |
18 | So I had two families then , the Kilroys , and the Silks . |
19 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
20 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
21 | to be , to be replacing that , so I said twenty pounds off the top of my head , so Brampton Theatre have agreed to that as well |
22 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
23 | So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’ |
24 | So I took this Whitley up for 10 , 15 maybe 20 minutes and just made quite sure that all the engines were running perfectly , made a spot check on each engine and tested its flying capabilities — hands off and a few simple things in everyday testing . |
25 | Well that 's a fourteen inch grate , fire a fourteen inch grate but you 've got the gap all round it like so I thought eighteen inch . |
26 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
27 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
28 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
29 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
30 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |