Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
| 2 | The second general conception of law I introduced in the last chapter , legal pragmatism , holds that people are never entitled to anything but the judicial decision that is , all things considered , best for the community as a whole , without regard to any past political decision . |
| 3 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ I replied nervously , ‘ This is some of the stuff I did in the early days , it 's all medical and rather boring . |
| 5 | At night I slept in the big kitchen on the brown leatherette bed settee , and my parents slept in the box room . |
| 6 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 7 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 8 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 9 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 10 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 11 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 12 | It 's against the system in Continental Europe , it 's against the system I saw in the occupied West Bank when I went out with the police last year and what I saw in South Africa a fortnight ago when I went out w with the police there i i i into the shanty towns and so on . |
| 13 | To my everlasting surprise I stayed in the main presenter 's chair — even though the programme 's title changed . |
| 14 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 15 | I was invited to attend as a ‘ participating observer ’ and the time I spent in the Social Studies group , I remember as one of the most exciting and productive in my educational experience , marred only by the fact that the conference had to end a little early because the money ran out . |
| 16 | But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life . |
| 17 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |