Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 2 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 3 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 4 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 5 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 6 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 7 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 8 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 9 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 10 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 11 | Several times I went to the head of the stairs , my longing to go to him was so strong . |
| 12 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 13 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 14 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
| 16 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 17 | For five months I slept with the baby , it was so cold . |
| 18 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 19 | And when he went for his injections I said to the vet can you snip that funny little growth and he said oh we 'll wait until he 's under , complete anaesthetic and then , it 's only a little wart he said . |
| 20 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 21 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 22 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 23 | Of the variety of amps I used with the Teardrop , the one which felt most compatible was , guess what , a Vox AC30 . |
| 24 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 25 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 26 | At intervals I wandered round the camp , flashing my powerful torch into the darkness . |
| 27 | The lack of space , the cold , the absence of hot water — all these contingencies I negotiated with the skills I had acquired in domestic science ( my best subject ) and as a Girl Guide . |
| 28 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 29 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
| 30 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |