Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 2 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 3 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 4 | I tried to smile politely but I was beginning to feel frightened . |
| 5 | I stopped knitting again and stared . |
| 6 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 7 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |
| 8 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 9 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 10 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 11 | I forgot to mention earlier that I 'll be standing in for emergency cover tonight . ’ |
| 12 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 13 | I began to talk rapidly and at random . |
| 14 | I could n't understand what was happening to me and I began to sink deeper and deeper into the pit . |
| 15 | ‘ I began campaigning there and then , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I enjoyed getting closer and closer without being spotted . |
| 17 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 18 | by using a selection of published material , that Islay has been occupied by a considerable number of people for a very long time , I decided to go ahead and hope that my errors were not too many and not too serious . |
| 19 | I woke feeling unwell and I decided to go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Thankfully , I decided to go home before I really cracked up . |
| 21 | Finally I decided to decline politely and throw myself on the mercy of an acquaintance instead . ’ |
| 22 | I started coughing yesterday and I , that were it ! |
| 23 | That was because P C firearm , his revolver was still in the holster because he was carrying the shield and it was only as er I started to move forward that P C er came up to the the doorway to cover me whilst I went forward . |
| 24 | It were nice just to relax and I started smoking again and I packed up last Sunday . |
| 25 | I started drinking heavily although the medication has stopped this . |
| 26 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 27 | I started to eat again and mumbled , ‘ Not the faintest . |
| 28 | Because of the problem with the boarding kennels , and the general recession , I started pouring more and more of my own money into the charity to keep it going . |
| 29 | I started coming just after Mike came — that was four seasons ago , and Martin he came two seasons ago and he used to live in the same street as me . ’ |
| 30 | Heathcliff and I started crying loudly and bitterly too . |