Example sentences of "[noun] i [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , and any case I just remembered Nicola 's was only hundred and sixty . |
| 2 | Right FIGURE 4 Over a lightly brushed area of red oxide I hurriedly scumbled cadmium red deep using a flat hog haired brush . |
| 3 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 4 | Roger , an art historian , had first gone to the Mansions as Margaret 's friend , and maintained that she had said : ‘ Of course I never read Ivy 's trash . ’ |
| 5 | ON THE North Shore I often heard people say ‘ there are no two waves alike ’ . |
| 6 | However , while I was in hospital , I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die of leukemia in the bed opposite me . |
| 7 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 8 | That was why as a child I often had anxiety dreams about her . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 10 | Much of the extensive heath country of Lincolnshire was successfully enclosed and converted into good arable land , but between Sleaford and Lincoln , Arthur Young saw , in the 1790s , ‘ hundreds of acres in the veriest state of waste I ever saw land , whether appropriated or unappropriated , in this kingdom . |
| 11 | In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink . |
| 12 | Yours was the only group I ever taught maths — a stop-gap teacher for a year . |
| 13 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 14 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 15 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 16 | I was soon to realize that there was much else , and at a far deeper level , to be learnt from this man I respectfully called Mr Rocke . |
| 17 | ‘ Despite the exhaustion I still felt excitement . |
| 18 | While on the top floor I often heard Grace Poole 's strange laugh , and sometimes I saw her too . |
| 19 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 20 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
| 21 | Although I sailed through O-Level I never took maths any further and I never engaged creatively in the process of doing mathematics . |
| 22 | So popular was this usage at one time that I recall examining final school-practice for one college when in observing two full days of drama lessons I only saw games , no drama at all . |
| 23 | In the end I really enjoyed College life . |
| 24 | By mid-afternoon I finally reached Inverkirkaig , not having seen anybody nor been passed by a car since leaving Ullapool . |
| 25 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 26 | In Sweden I read the Expressen and in America I usually read USA Today . |
| 27 | ‘ The first time I really took Jo on board was before I 'd ever met her . |
| 28 | ‘ The first time I ever saw Bertrand Russell he came in — this was a party at the Bells ’ house . |
| 29 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 30 | ‘ This was the only time I ever saw Ken himself break up and get stuck , ’ remembers Lance Percival . |