Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 2 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 3 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 5 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 6 | I really enjoyed the day , and I was a little put out by the articles I read in a couple of daily newspapers throughout the week , which criticised the tournament for staging what they called ‘ just a one-woman show ’ . |
| 7 | If the high expectations I have of a partner are based on past experience rather than romantic ideology , so are the expectations I have of myself . |
| 8 | Probably one of the most horrific things I remember on a cricket field . |
| 9 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 10 | In some ways I feel like a soldier in a front-line . |
| 11 | bottoms I suppose in a minute |
| 12 | But it can lead to trouble : many of the problem children I see as a child psychologist are ‘ precious ’ . |
| 13 | And in another poem , entitled Local Hero , Dominic wrote : Devoid of charts I drift on a raft of dreams , So please think kindly if ever you consider me , For is not compassion the finest of the arts ? |
| 14 | good game … who 's he kidding it 's going to be a cracker … what 's the odds I wonder on a Gloucester … |