Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 6 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 7 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 8 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | inside it and then for you and mum I bought a little something , it was one pound forty . |
| 11 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 12 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 16 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 17 | For her younger sister I felt a similar affection and admiration . |
| 18 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 19 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 20 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 21 | But then , in the far corner of the field I found a medieval buckle . |
| 22 | ‘ One , when I was having dinner with you and Ed in Helsinki at his apartment I sensed a certain intimacy between the two of you . |
| 23 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 24 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 25 | In tracing the descent of this manor I found a small handwritten note in Edward Hasted 's own copy of the 1664 edition of Philipot 's Villare Cantianum . |
| 26 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
| 27 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 28 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 29 | With this in mind I phoned a good friend who runs a detector shop and asked whether he had any decent second-hand machines for sale of the same type as my old one . |
| 30 | 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 . |