Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 2 | I turned to go out the way I had come . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell them I want to go out the way I came in , Shih Herrick . |
| 4 | Walking through the village I met Councillor Raymond Kilner cleaning out the well . |
| 5 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 6 | Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill . |
| 7 | I used to work as a boy I did on . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 9 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 12 | But as we left the tarmac road and headed up the hill I made a grave error . |
| 13 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 14 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 15 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 16 | With the Fokker lurching and shuddering in the storm I unfastened my safety-belt , staggered up to the pilot 's cockpit and was finally able to bellow into ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan 's ear that the mail had been left behind . |
| 17 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 18 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 19 | Most of them are contained in the report I had drawn up , which is in front of you now . ’ |
| 20 | That is to say , there is no subterfuge implied in such an action , and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening . |
| 21 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 22 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 23 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 24 | I hoped the exploration would go well and that the cancer would be confined to the kidney I had already rather sadly signed away . |
| 25 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 26 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 27 | This was my first visit to the line and apart from being impressed by the set-up I felt a genuine warmness from everyone I spoke to . |
| 28 | I knew I could never inflict her as a mother on Kirsty , but I was totally trapped by the promise I 'd made . |
| 29 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 30 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |