Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter . |
| 2 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 3 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 4 | In 1976 and 1977 I published a number of papers in pragmatics , and these I eventually revised to make a book , Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics , published by John Benjamins ( Amsterdam ) in 1980 . |
| 5 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 6 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 7 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 8 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 9 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 10 | I only started to make the links when the dampness started to affect my mental health . |
| 11 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 12 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 13 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 14 | I only wanted to get a few comments about Froggy . |
| 15 | I suddenly wanted to see the green-leafed Devon river banks and to feel the grey sharp waves of the Channel buffeting my hull . |
| 16 | I suddenly wanted to see the work I was doing laid out in front of me . |
| 17 | Meanwhile I much enjoyed chairing the South African debate , since tempers flared throughout , including mine , which is always interesting . |
| 18 | I thus began to call the Indian movement ‘ Satyagraha ’ , that is to say , the Force which is born of Truth and Love or Non-violence … ’ |
| 19 | I just walked to get the erm , the pi , to walk to get the paper |
| 20 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I just had to turn the telly over . |
| 22 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 23 | Well , after Marks advert for Clubcall I decided I just had to hijack the fax machines telephone line and call it up . |
| 24 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 25 | I just thought get a life ! |
| 26 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 28 | ‘ I just came to find a book … ’ |
| 29 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 30 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |