Example sentences of "i [adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 2 | I found I would eat as much of the unrestricted foods as I wanted and I still steadily lost weight . |
| 3 | I was always so glad to see him I hardly ever took time to say goodbye to Dad and whichever conductor was on tram-duty with him . |
| 4 | Terry , Brian and I also soon lost interest in monitoring it around the clock , although we 'd listen to programmes that sounded interesting , together with a couple of news bulletins a day and then VOA at night as Tom went off to sleep and the rest of us played cards . |
| 5 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 6 | Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her . |
| 7 | I no longer dared talk to trees . |
| 8 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 9 | ‘ I never really had time , ’ said the winning baritone voice . |
| 10 | I never really became part of the group . |
| 11 | I never actually reached puberty , in terms of periods , although I can remember feeling lumps developing in my breasts , and being momentarily shocked before realising that I was growing up . |