Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 2 | I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that . |
| 3 | When I was little I learned to swim in the ponds of the Romney Marshes , behind Dungeness . |
| 4 | all I 've eaten in the last week and one day is salads |
| 5 | All those I had loved in the past — Richard , Marjorie , Alain , Madeleine , Leo , Muriel , Alan , Sandro , Erich , Jordi — all loved more or less in vain , hopelessly — were now without substance or meaning . |
| 6 | The former are those I have quoted in the case of the other building societies . |
| 7 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 8 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 9 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |