Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 2 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 3 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 4 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 5 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 6 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 7 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 8 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 9 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 10 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 11 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 12 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 13 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 14 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 15 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 16 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 17 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 18 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |
| 19 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 20 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 21 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 22 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 23 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 24 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 25 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 26 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 27 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 28 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 29 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 30 | When it began to grow dark I noticed through the little connecting window that he did n't put his light on ; this alarmed me , somehow . |