Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But almost immediately I ran into a new danger . |
| 2 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 3 | I was n't positive on this one , so I checked with a leading manufacturer who said it was not wise to mix , as the addition of stain could upset the drying time . |
| 4 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 5 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
| 6 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 7 | We did n't think there was enough room for another member of the family , so I trained as a chartered accountant . ’ |
| 8 | I could n't miss this , Watson , so I jumped into a third taxi . |
| 9 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 10 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 11 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 12 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 13 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 14 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 15 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 16 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 17 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 18 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 19 | That over I can remember nothing until I awoke in a pleasant ward with three other mothers who had already seen their offspring . |
| 20 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 21 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 22 | She had intended to say , ‘ Because I went through a promiscuous period after I left Sam , and it was a hateful , shameful , humiliating time , and I 'll never let it happen again . ’ |
| 23 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 24 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 25 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 26 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 27 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 28 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 29 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 30 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |