Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 6 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 11 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 12 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 13 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The area I covered as a national organizer was from Berwick to Stirling and everything in between . |
| 20 | 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 … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Here is a message I got from a tame Man U supporter on the subject we are all discussing . |
| 23 | A radiologist I remembered from a previous visit with my now long-gone kidney came in , looked at me and smiled . |
| 24 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 25 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 26 | The one terrible thing I witnessed as a small child was my mother suddenly rising from the dining-table with face tortured and crying , ‘ I am going to die ’ . |
| 27 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 28 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 29 | When I had depression I went to a self-help group . |
| 30 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |