Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 2 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 3 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I rushed him back to our nearby hotel , where I cleaned the wounds and fixed three or four large Band-Aids on them . |
| 5 | The weeping girl , Vicky , threw herself out of danger into the recesses of the cave , where I stored the fruits of the autumn . |
| 6 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 7 | I I ca n't be sure where I got the information from but from that time until the end of my shift at ten P M I was gleaning information from all different directions about the and the connection . |
| 8 | JUNE 16 : Today I visited the Department of Trade and Industry , where I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of The Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( Directive 89/686/EEC ) , which as a every single-market fan will know , cam into force on July 1 , 1992 . |
| 9 | And if I wear where I had the eternity ring on and the engagement ring and the wedding ring |
| 10 | No lights came on where I figured the master bedroom probably was ; that comforted me a bit . |
| 11 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 12 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 13 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 14 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 15 | Although I thought the Callanetics course was very good for small groups , it was unsuitable for my ladies as I have members of all shapes and sizes , whose ages range from 14–83 . |
| 16 | So although I heard the emptiness intellectually , I did n't feel it . |
| 17 | The next day , although I sprayed the pests , as I knew I must , I stood at arm 's length from the compost heap and wore jeans and high-rise trainers . |
| 18 | Although I scanned the terrain round about him anxiously , I could discover no sign of the monster . |
| 19 | Although I left the car park wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with my warmer clothes packed away in the rucksack , the walk was now a serious business and I was wearing everything I had with me . |
| 20 | Although I joined the company only two and half years ago , the contracts which we had then had a two day , three day price on them . |
| 21 | I found it very difficult not to push then , and although I tried the puff , puff , blow it did n't help , and I had to pant . |
| 22 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 23 | Peter Carrington was a major loss , and although I admired the loyalty of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce I thought their resignations unnecessary . |
| 24 | Although I found the food unappetizing , I warmed to the atmosphere of the place . |
| 25 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 26 | Although I demonstrated the advantages of the ‘ hot mike ’ system to ICAO and to the US National Transportation Safety Board in 1979 , the resistance to retrospective modifications ( because of the cost involved ) which the US airlines are able to organise through their congressional lobbying activities has prevented its introduction in the USA . |
| 27 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 28 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 29 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 30 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |