Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 2 | I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 4 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 5 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
| 6 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 7 | There are some marvellous graphics among these new breeds but , having never particularly liked comics , I failed to overcome a fundamental irritation with the medium of pictures and words combined . |
| 8 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 9 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 10 | I failed to place a cardboard cut-out of a male person lying , in a posture of total exhaustion , in one of the darker recesses of the living room . |
| 11 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 12 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 13 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 14 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 16 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 17 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 18 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . |
| 20 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 21 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net . ’ |
| 22 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net ! ’ |
| 23 | I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . |
| 24 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 25 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 26 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 27 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 28 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 29 | ‘ I have a new understanding of scripture and I learnt to read a personal message from it — I do n't want to lose that . ’ |
| 30 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |