Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 2 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 3 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 4 | ‘ That was my own story I put in the column , ’ said old Eddy Moulton stubbornly . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 6 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 7 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 8 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 9 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 10 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 11 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 12 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 13 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 14 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 15 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 16 | And this bit I do before the lesson and I do this , clean it up afterwards . |
| 17 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 18 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 19 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 20 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 21 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 22 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 23 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 25 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 26 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 27 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 28 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 29 | ‘ It was Christabel who wrote the description I read of the Seal Court winter garden . |
| 30 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |