Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 2 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 3 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 4 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 5 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 6 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 7 | At university I had done Moral Philosophy , English , French and German . |
| 8 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 9 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 10 | He said that if in future I needed to sell oriental porcelain I should go to M. Bourget , in the rue de Berri , and mention Helmut 's name . |
| 11 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 12 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 13 | And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running . |
| 14 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 15 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 16 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 17 | With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink . |
| 18 | The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ . |
| 19 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 20 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 21 | At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality . |
| 22 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 23 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 24 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 25 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 26 | A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect . |
| 27 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 28 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |
| 29 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready . |