Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 2 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 3 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 4 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 5 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 6 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 7 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 8 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 9 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 10 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 11 | Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word : |
| 12 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 13 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 14 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 15 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 16 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 17 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 18 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 19 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 20 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 21 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 22 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 23 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 24 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 25 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 26 | Thanks to Geoff 's example , as a social worker specialising in alcohol problems I started to learn about the interaction between alcohol and depression . |
| 27 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 28 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 29 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 30 | In my last year with Rangers I 'd looked after the S form signings — players like Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson — but I knew I needed to see what life was like away from Ibrox . ’ |