Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 2 | Tell me about the pedal board I 've seen on stage … |
| 3 | In this case I have talked to Council officials , and I think they would be prepared to offer to buy the land . |
| 4 | Through my mother and my sisters , this was the stereotype I had learned at home . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hard to believe such a vivacious personality is lost to us ’ , ’ Dysart was quoted as saying 'and harder still to accept that the stand I have taken against terrorism may have brought about her death . ’ ’ |
| 6 | I immediately placed all the money I had collected on deposit in the Bow Building Society at 102 Cheapside for a period of one year at a rate of four per cent . |
| 7 | I was very tempted to gamble the little money I had left in order to try and accumulate some more — tempted also to have a go just for the thrill of it . |
| 8 | I 'm always short of money , she needs such a lot of extra things , you would n't believe the money I 've spent on bedding , laundry , special chairs , clothing . |
| 9 | Of course they do n't know whether I 'm married or single , why I 'm buying so much food , or how much money I 've spent on food that week . |
| 10 | I could n't see how you could get a lot of maths into physics on the grounds of the experience I 'd had in school . |
| 11 | Obviously this utilises the experience I have gained to date and also allows me to develop further within my chosen field . |
| 12 | In the bedroom I get changed for work . |
| 13 | you know , and he said well produce your witness I 've gone to hell . |
| 14 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 15 | It 's only bloody luxury I 've got in life , smoking . |
| 16 | I want to fight the best people and to be given respect for all the hard work I 've put into boxing , particularly in the gym . ’ |
| 17 | At the PEN office were Imre Szász of PEN , Ottó Orbán , a poet whose work I had admired in translation , László Kunos , translator and an editor with Corvina , the national publishing house , and Maria Körösy , translator and secretary of Hungarian PEN . |
| 18 | and a luminous dream I 'd had of origin : |
| 19 | The girl I had seen at dinner had seemed likeable in a cold kind of way . |
| 20 | It was not the sort I had seen in West Africa , with side-windows missing and as many chickens on board as people , but as plush as the one that had recently taken our Parish Fellowship for an evening drive around Cheshire . |
| 21 | It was a picture I had examined with attention through many an hour of boring burble , raucous revivalist song and whining , wheezing harmonium . |
| 22 | After the day I 'd had at work . |
| 23 | And Drysdale said : ‘ That was the biggest and best night I 've had in football . |
| 24 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 25 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 26 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 27 | I was starting to get that unreal sense , the dream feeling I 'd had on invasion day all that time ago ; the idea that it was n't really me who was going through all this . |
| 28 | You ought a erm drink that bottle of coke I 've got at home because that goes flat do n't it ? |
| 29 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 30 | It 's the best performance I 've seen on screen all year , ’ says one member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , who give the awards . |