Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 2 | I shied at such a thinly veiled challenge , but succumbed to her persuasion , which had become more vociferous as the water diminished . |
| 3 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 4 | ‘ I lived in such a jungle once , ’ said Meh'Lindi . |
| 5 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | I got through half the book . |
| 7 | And I did use it once and I got in such a temper ! |
| 8 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 9 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 10 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 11 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 12 | I noticed in particular the comment that at regional appeals , there were six members on the panel hearing the appeal , all paid . |
| 13 | I piped with all the passion of a Cartland virgin ( which indeed I was , mentally if not technically ) . |
| 14 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
| 15 | So I stuck to all the side dishes , which were they were very nice . |
| 16 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
| 17 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 18 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 19 | Y y you 'll see at the bottom of the agenda that er John and I talked about this the other night , er and there are |
| 20 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 21 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 22 | ‘ I dreamed about this every night during the waiting period ’ , said Clyde Aikau , Eddie 's brother , after winning in 1986 . |
| 23 | And I looked at all the rest of them — a tough lot , I can tell you — they could n't believe it either . |
| 24 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 25 | I looked in both the cemeteries , among the Christians and the Jews , and found the names of all my neighbours . |
| 26 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 27 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |
| 28 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 29 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 30 | I thought about this the day after Pike went crazy . |