Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] i [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 2 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 3 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 5 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 6 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 7 | My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’ |
| 8 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 9 | One day both parents accompanied me to a fund-raising luncheon at the Savoy , an afternoon rehearsal , tea at the house of an old friend in Twickenham by the river , the recording of a TV show in which I appeared in front of a live audience , and supper in a lovely restaurant with the cast . |
| 10 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 11 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 12 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 13 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 14 | The suppressed anger in the tone of Emily Lightbody 's departing heeltips afflicted me with a premonitory dread . |
| 15 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 16 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 17 | His palms cradle me in a green cup |
| 18 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 19 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 20 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 21 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 22 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 23 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |
| 24 | For some time three of the barefoot children accompanied me along the seldom-used path . |
| 25 | The patterning of fine wrinkles reminded me of an aerial photo of Easter Island . |
| 26 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 27 | Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department . |
| 28 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |