Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] i [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 2 | Highton Highton I came a nice part . |
| 3 | In the living room I found the usual debris . |
| 4 | As I walked through the rubble in the direction of the road leading back to Amfreville and Brigade H.Q I passed a few slit trenches manned by No. 4 Commando . |
| 5 | Seeking escape routes I found the only other Customs Waterguard Station , seemingly more unpopular than Heathrow , available at that time was Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides and when I rang HQ one day to see if it was still open . |
| 6 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 7 | It was empty , but at the corner where the lamplight was reflected in Robson 's shop window I had a brief impression of a fleeing form and a faint echo of laughter . |
| 8 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 9 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 10 | On the centre pages I found a huge black and white photograph of a Hercules aircraft disgorging paratroopers over a large expanse of grassland somewhere in Africa . |
| 11 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 12 | In warm afternoon sunshine I spent a pleasing hour wandering the narrow Gassen ( lanes ) round the Münsterplatz . |
| 13 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 14 | One late summer night I hooked a large chubb . |
| 15 | For Dawn 's first solo flight I played a little trick on her . |
| 16 | Chris Christmas day I had a real chest erm and mouth and everything . |
| 17 | Twelve months ago in my last Christmas contribution I anticipated a difficult 1991 and that has proved to be the case . |