Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 2 | With a trembling hand I turned over the paper which was face down . |
| 3 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 4 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 5 | A little idea I picked up during a sojourn among the dipsomaniacs of Mother Russia . |
| 6 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 7 | And from I was a little girl I went round with Mama cleaning the house . ’ |
| 8 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 9 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 10 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ You wrote an article about Eliot in a feminist magazine I picked up in Blackwell 's . |
| 12 | They were just , it was just a one day I went round there shopping and they had , and I bought some beige ones for the kitchen . |
| 13 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |