Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final .
2 I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely .
3 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 :
4 Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago .
5 What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me .
6 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 .
7 I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman .
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