Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 2 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 3 | I housed both the processor and amp in an SKB 2U rack case and hardwired a double mains board in the back . |
| 4 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 5 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I misjudged slightly the timing of my emergence . |
| 7 | I planned roughly the direction of my ‘ impromptu ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 9 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 10 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 12 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 13 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 14 | I tried again a week later . |
| 15 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 16 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 17 | But as I drew nearer the crag became smaller still , the stature of the brightly garbed climbers , who were smaller still , creating the optical illusion . |
| 18 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 19 | I mentioned earlier the finding that ( from as early as the second year of life ) boys are , on average , more aggressive than girls ; and there are also differences in the way in which the sexes express their hostility . |
| 20 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 21 | I wanted to meet Peruvians and speak to them one to one ; and in Cuzco I encountered only the persistence of hawkers , the sullen attention of displaced campesinos , a world that turned itself or me into shadows . |
| 22 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 23 | I came here a bit early this evening , and I did n't want to risk any of those clamps or fines or anything . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 25 | ‘ I came here the morning after she died and he told me . |
| 26 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said carefully , ‘ as I believe I intimated just a moment ago , I 'm just about to leave . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |
| 29 | I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department , and paid £10 for a 1927 Austin 7 in which I drove uncertainly every day from Wimbledon . |
| 30 | I noticed again the touch of reserve about her . |