Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 2 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 3 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 4 | A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different . |
| 5 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 7 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 8 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 9 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 10 | Whenever I picked up my guitar I played the same basic scalar and arpeggiated patterns . |
| 11 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 12 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 13 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 14 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 15 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 16 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 17 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 18 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 19 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 20 | So when we walked from the pool to the car I felt the whole impact of the sun . |
| 21 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 22 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 23 | Mummy I got the all the children watching the pictures |
| 24 | ‘ No wonder I got the damned boat cheaply , ’ he said . |
| 25 | As in a dream I seized the bristly hairs . |
| 26 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 27 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 28 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 29 | And echoing across Loch Garten I heard the last wintering whooper swans and the trills of common sandpipers . |
| 30 | Psyched down after this epic battle I allowed the treacherous turf to gain revenge on the much easier pitch above . |