Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports .
2 Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’
3 As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness .
4 In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion .
5 While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down .
6 Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return .
7 For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous .
8 Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface .
9 On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister .
10 Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull .
11 and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past
12 Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van .
13 For her younger sister I felt a similar affection and admiration .
14 As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones .
15 Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat .
16 As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair .
17 But then , in the far corner of the field I found a medieval buckle .
18 ‘ One , when I was having dinner with you and Ed in Helsinki at his apartment I sensed a certain intimacy between the two of you .
19 Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together .
20 I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions .
21 In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools .
22 And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka …
23 With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape .
24 With this in mind I phoned a good friend who runs a detector shop and asked whether he had any decent second-hand machines for sale of the same type as my old one .
25 From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped .
26 And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had
27 In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago .
28 Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember .
29 So when we walked from the pool to the car I felt the whole impact of the sun .
30 It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur .
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