Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 2 | idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint . |
| 3 | I still dreamed of food and the convivial , outdoor feast , but I no longer took full part in the proceedings . |
| 4 | When I was appreached I immediately said of course . |
| 5 | The first time it happened I immediately thought of meningitis , and rushed her to the doctor 's . |
| 6 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 7 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 8 | I never thought of nigger brown as being an offensive remark . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |