Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Lemmings and that computer game I wanted . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 3 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 4 | I drank nothing at lunch , despite the horrendous Malvinas Surprise I ordered ( a triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks ) . |
| 5 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 6 | I mean , this ghost thing I heard about , and now Demian . |
| 7 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 8 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 9 | At this staging camp I picked up some mail . |
| 10 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 11 | ‘ There was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 12 | During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone . |
| 13 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 14 | FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge |
| 15 | Working on brown Ingres paper I started by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 16 | And from this kernel notion I developed the plot of my first Inspector Ghote novel called — wait for it — The Perfect Murder . |
| 17 | Can anybody shed some light on an old air pump I got in a box of aquarium bits recently , at a car boot sale ? |
| 18 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 19 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 20 | In the course of researching extra material for Pursuit in the Public Records Office I made one lucky and quite unexpected find . |
| 21 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 22 | This wrist model I tried was designed for air diving and programmed with the Bühlmann ZHL12 algorithm with automatic ranging from 3,500 metres above sea level to 100 metres depth . |
| 23 | All this livelong day I lay on my favourite rock in the sun . |
| 24 | ‘ The whole story 's in that exercise book I found . ’ |
| 25 | That is he rejects the pervasive competitiveness and individualism ; he was the only male physics student I talked to who talked in terms of doing something socially useful after finishing the course . |
| 26 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 27 | By the riverbank in the warm afternoon sunlight I meandered back to Church Bridge and Dent . |
| 28 | In warm afternoon sunshine I spent a pleasing hour wandering the narrow Gassen ( lanes ) round the Münsterplatz . |
| 29 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 30 | On Saturday evening and early Sunday morning I packed two bags , the new suitcase from England and a softer holdall bought in Toronto . |