Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 2 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 3 | Between formal sessions I asked an amiable American academic precisely how he managed to familiarize his students with it , given the difficulty . |
| 4 | As a result I took no part in organized college sport , though despite lack of skill I enjoyed an occasional game of squash . |
| 5 | Without my shoes I had an obvious limp . |
| 6 | Just over a week into December I received an early Christmas present : a letter from the Prince 's Trust containing a cheque for £200 ! |
| 7 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 8 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 9 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 10 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |
| 11 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
| 12 | It does n't sound like Mozzer is going to have to explain himself ; last week I saw an Asian punk rock band called Cornershop articulate many people 's feelings by setting fire to a poster of the misguided buffoon . |
| 13 | Just outside Wolfstein I found an attractive-looking Gasthof at the tiny settlement of Reckweilerhof which is no more really than two large farm steadings , one of which has been turned into a guesthouse . |
| 14 | There was a youth dance during one conference I staged and at six the next morning I did an automatic check on the adjustable lectern , Only to find graffiti-covered papers stuck all over the front . |
| 15 | One night earlier this season I made an excellent catch of bream . |
| 16 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
| 17 | But he was a big man and for some reason I had an unhealthy picture of him being more than able to do something unspeakable to Tonka toys . |
| 18 | In the audience I found an appreciative Dave Allen , the comedian . |
| 19 | I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing . |
| 20 | This was the first time I saw an Islamic service and I was impressed by the unhurried , synchronized movements of the worshippers and by the sonorous rhythm of their prayers . |
| 21 | Now , I am so thankful I stayed longer , for in this time I had an unforgettable experience . |
| 22 | Having a ‘ purge ’ on the cones in my cupboard I used an acrylic ‘ angora ’ type of yarn for the background ( putting a strand of sewing cotton with the yarn for the welts ) . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact I knew an old couple that ran a , had a nursery school there , a big one and a very successful one . |
| 24 | While visiting Berlin the composer Richard Strauss wrote to his father on 7 April 1892 ‘ In Berlin I made an engaging new acquaintance , the Scottish poet John Henry Mackay , a great anarchist and biographer of the Berlin philosopher Max Stirner . ’ |
| 25 | In Madrid I tried an all-white outfit which seemed okay to me . |
| 26 | In a dusty guidebook of the region I noticed an intriguing photograph of a small , pseudo-Renaissance building , the château of Monte Cristo . |