Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 2 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 3 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 4 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After two hours with dry feet I stepped into a bog up to my knees — end of test . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well , in the next few weeks I sang like a canary . |
| 12 | I 'll take you to all the places I loved as a girl . |
| 13 | Towards the end of my primary school years I went on a holiday with my year to Kent with my friends and many other pupils and teachers . |
| 14 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 15 | For many years I marched to a music in comparison with which the military music of the streets is noise and discord . |
| 16 | Probably one of the most horrific things I remember on a cricket field . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 19 | ‘ For the first four holes I played like a 20-handicapper . |
| 20 | In some ways I feel like a soldier in a front-line . |
| 21 | ‘ I really wanted to create a reference book for my twin daughters , Alicia and Alexandra , of all the recipes I loved as a child , and still like cooking , ’ explains Sheila . |
| 22 | Having no qualifications I launched into a career as a journalist and for my health it became downhill all the way . |
| 23 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 24 | bottoms I suppose in a minute |
| 25 | But it can lead to trouble : many of the problem children I see as a child psychologist are ‘ precious ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | From a cotton town , my mother had a heightened awareness of fabric and weave , and I can date events by the clothes I wore as a child , and the material they were made of . |