Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 2 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 3 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 4 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 5 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 6 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 7 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 8 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 9 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 10 | Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’ |
| 11 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 12 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 13 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 14 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 15 | Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’ |
| 16 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 17 | Feeling in one of the pockets I found a black eye patch for added colour and realised that my crew were endorsing the senior officer 's joke about piracy in the Channel . |
| 18 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 19 | He wo n't say anything about their financial affairs , although between the lines I detected a certain amount of mirth that Mel of the Mars Bars ' custom has gone elsewhere . |
| 20 | Without my shoes I had an obvious limp . |
| 21 | In those days I slept a great deal , and sometimes I dreamed : not of what had happened but of emptiness and occasionally of chaos when the tenuous mosaic that was life shattered into its constituent parts and whirled away into unknown infinities . |
| 22 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 23 | After 5 weeks I had a small nitrite reading and there was no trace of ammonia . |
| 24 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 25 | In the unlikely event of an alternative Administration being returned to power and seeking to get talks started , on the basis of my experience over the past two years I wish the hon. Gentleman well . |
| 26 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 27 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 28 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 29 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 30 | After several false tries I found the front hall again . |