Example sentences of "a [noun sg] i [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 2 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 3 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 4 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 5 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 6 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 7 | As a father-of-six I do know a little about babies and this one had a healthy cry . |
| 8 | After a while I began to feel a little like Dorothy myself . |
| 9 | Er being an agriculturalist rather than a planner I tend to get a bit confused by higher planning semantics of the difference between strict control and presumption against not normally . |
| 10 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 11 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 12 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 13 | Well when when the doctor saw him on a fortnight ago this Friday today , a fortnight ago today the doctor phoned the ward and said have you got a bed I 've got a man here who 's be who is between myself and my curry dinner time and you could be saving two people 's lives my life cos he was so hungry |
| 14 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |
| 17 | Half way through a number I 've seen a commotion going on and it 's Mum , trying to climb the barriers . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |