`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

`` I guess we both felt it ''.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.

Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.

Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.

A basic distinction is with regard to whether the speaker looks at a situation as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during the situation (" I ate "), or with no reference to temporal bounds but with reference to the nature of the flow of time during the situation (" I was eating ", " I used to eat ").

* Past simple ( not progressive, not perfect ): " I ate "

* Passato prossimo ( recent past ): io ho mangiato (" I ate ", " I have eaten ")-merges perfective and perfect

* Imperfetto ( imperfect ): io mangiavo (" I was eating ", or " I usually ate ")-merges habitual and progressive aspects

* Passato remoto ( far past ): io mangiai ( I " ate ")-perfective aspect

** Recent perfect, also known as after perfect: ' I just ate ' or ' I am after eating ' ( Hiberno-English )

Bogart explained: " All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky.

fruit and Adam replies, ‘ Eve gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it .’

Another is his " Inflationary Language ", where he incremented numbers embedded in words, whether they are visible or not (" once upon a time " becomes " twice upon a time ", " wonderful " becomes " twoderful ", " forehead " becomes " fivehead ", " tennis " becomes " elevennis ", " I ate a tenderloin with my fork and so on and so forth " becomes "' I nine an elevenderloin with my five ' k ' and so on and so fifth ").

For example, a child might tell his or her parents " I ate every vegetable on my plate ," when there were no vegetables on the child ’ s plate to begin with.

: Horisehik ha ' u han etu – Yesterday I ate rice.

: Ha ' u han tiha etu – I ate rice.

: Ha ' u han etu tiha ona – I have eaten rice / I ate rice.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.