Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor were there any colourful bazaars , though there was a market where I later bought fruit , vegetables , eggs and three small glasses , the sort from which Algerians drink their coffee . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a little bit from IRS where I still had connections . |
| 3 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 4 | Not that I ever drank beer . |
| 5 | But you must surely understand that I never meant things to get out of hand like that . ’ |
| 6 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 7 | An hour , in which , knowing full well that I never gave interviews , she wrote to your sister , giving her an appointment . ’ |
| 8 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 9 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 10 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 11 | Assuming that I now had BWB approval in principle and a promise of funding , I went ahead and on 12 May called on our members for volunteers . |
| 12 | And , since I could not admit that I often found Nonni both difficult and boring , I had a hard time with myself . |
| 13 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 14 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 15 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |
| 16 | The inference was obvious , so I immediately telephoned Butcher late one evening . |
| 17 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 18 | College induction programmes for staff new to FE were in their infancy at that time and I probably felt content in the knowledge of my own ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 19 | My older brother and I immediately laid siege to our mother to let us go . |
| 20 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |
| 21 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 22 | which is what I , I , in the I had Eric Bristow and Maureen one night , and , I mean , it was just little dart board in the corner , but what I did was , I had a big screen like that and I just got student television service just to film it live and just throw it straight back up onto the big |
| 23 | And I just went Jesus ! ! |
| 24 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 25 | It seemed there was never enough time to catch up , and I badly needed Charlie to return and take the shop off my hands . |
| 26 | Some time elapsed and I finally telephoned Lord Weidenfeld , who was charged with the duty of collecting the money , to know what had happened . |
| 27 | ‘ I did it because I was bored , and I rather believed Ireland should be a single country . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I rather thought Ian was a friend of young Thomas , the Bishop 's son . |
| 29 | But Derek and I both made mistakes at first ; simple things really , such as accidentally standing on the creance just as the bird came across , so that the poor thing got dumped . |
| 30 | On the Shelter Stone Central Slabs , Gary Latter and I both repeated Alan Fyffe 's E1 5b alternative start to the Pin , finding it E3 5c and excellent . |