Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 2 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 3 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 4 | It will be apparent from what I have already said that I agree with the views expressed by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 , 41–42 . |
| 5 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 6 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 7 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 8 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 9 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 10 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 11 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 12 | Cos I tell you what I have got cos I went to an Indian reservation and I 've got a small carving which an Indian did for |
| 13 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 14 | Eagles boss Gary Hetherington said : ‘ It 's the best side I 've had since I came to the club . ’ |
| 15 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 16 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 17 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 18 | ‘ But this first guitar was just a $20 acoustic , and as soon as I could I bought an Ibanez SG , then that was stolen and I went to a Les Paul . |
| 19 | I found it extremely satisfying , which was something I never found when I worked in an office … |
| 20 | My scope increased and I cycled round the villages in search of paragraphs . |
| 21 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 22 | The inability to convert our possession into goals has remained since I walked through the door . ’ |
| 23 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
| 24 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 25 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 26 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 27 | It was amazing how quickly the weeks passed as I settled into the routine of life on Koraloona . |
| 28 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 29 | The argument ended and I went into the shop . |
| 30 | ‘ Fortunately the traffic cleared and I got to the studio to start my show with two minutes to go . ’ |