Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] i [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 3 | The Escort has been one of Britain 's top-sellers for many years and having tested various examples of the latest in the range I have to give a curate 's egg verdict . |
| 4 | Now erm at the moment I 've got a lot to fit in |
| 5 | Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . . |
| 6 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 7 | In the example I 've shown a simple three chord B dorian progression ( Bm , A , E ) with each of the chords followed by a couple of double stops . |
| 8 | After a spell in the sauna I had to make a choice . |
| 9 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 10 | Towards the summit I had to cross a couple of snowfields , and there was a final rock-climb to get to the top . |
| 11 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 12 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 13 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 14 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 15 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 16 | ‘ The hospital I chose had a birthing pool and I met a midwife who I liked immediately . |
| 17 | I have the information I need to do a good job . |
| 18 | The reason I 've used a highlighter or changed colour is that now that , the colour sticks out does n't it ? |
| 19 | The reason I said smoking a pipe , okay , you assumed that she smoked cigarettes . |
| 20 | Over the summer I did read a few books and tentatively prepare a few classes , but it was indisputably a pretty lacklustre performance on my part . |
| 21 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
| 22 | In the end I decide to get a big cup of coffee and a jam doughnut . |
| 23 | On the strength of the discussion I have drafted a supplementary response to the WTB which I enclose for your information . |
| 24 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 25 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 26 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 27 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |
| 28 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 29 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 30 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |