Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [prep] a [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 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 4 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 7 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just after I had passed my driving test I drove up a local hill on the way to my aunt 's house , coming to traffic at a standstill . |
| 13 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 14 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 15 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 16 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 17 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 18 | For two years I worked as a residential officer in old people 's homes in addition to my academic work . |
| 19 | They offered me soup I was desperate for but took no notice of , asked me questions I answered with a catatonic silence and a stare . |
| 20 | One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue . |
| 21 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 22 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 23 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 24 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 25 | Last Sunday I talked with a white farmer whose land is in what Rhodesians call ‘ the sharp end ’ , where the fighting is . |
| 26 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 27 | The area I covered as a national organizer was from Berwick to Stirling and everything in between . |
| 28 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 29 | Outside Lisabeth 's door I said in a loud voice , as if talking to someone : ‘ That 's the trouble , you just ca n't get the staff these days … ’ |
| 30 | After writing the story and filing it by telegraph I revelled in a hot bath , a good dinner , and a warm bed as the guest of the Palliser Hotel . |