Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich .
2 I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea .
3 And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between .
4 At university I had done Moral Philosophy , English , French and German .
5 He said that if in future I needed to sell oriental porcelain I should go to M. Bourget , in the rue de Berri , and mention Helmut 's name .
6 As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’
7 With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers .
8 The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day .
9 My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ .
10 With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink .
11 The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ .
12 At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power .
13 At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did .
14 At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality .
15 Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance .
16 A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect .
17 After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work .
18 He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was .
19 ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready .
20 From one friend I learned to appreciate classical music played on his HMV portable .
21 Somewhat on impulse I decided to try this route .
22 As an urban creature I had dubbed these conditions ‘ inconvenient ’ and ‘ primitive ’ .
23 Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast .
24 Nonetheless , within half-a-circuit I had reached 800 ft .
25 I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well .
26 Later on in life I did acquire another bike , a Raleigh , and a good , stout little bike it is .
27 How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning !
28 That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you .
29 Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .
30 I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 .
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