Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 2 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 3 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 4 | For more than two hours I stood at bay while a nonstop torrent of crockery poured down on me ; thousands and thousands of plates , every one bearing a smear of cottage pie , a blob of cold gravy , a few adhering chips . |
| 5 | One of the last cruises I enjoyed on Viking took us south as far as Oban . |
| 6 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 7 | I even remember books I disliked with affection . |
| 8 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 9 | Encouraged by Joe 's honest words I went to bed , but I could n't stop myself thinking that Estella would consider Joe 's boots too thick and his hands too coarse , and our whole family common . |
| 10 | I reckon most of the kids I knew in care ended up in trouble . |
| 11 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 12 | This mixture of strategic and ideological arguments , whose origins I described in Chapter Three , had by now been encapsulated in the single phrase ‘ diversity ’ . |
| 13 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 14 | ‘ Every morning , ’ he writes , ‘ I left my mother 's place and went straight to Brion 's , we had a cup of tea and a puff and days after days I left for home at five … |
| 15 | For three years I played at will . |
| 16 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 17 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 18 | ‘ Twenty years I wandered in darkness ! |
| 19 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ things I expected to value ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Nikos , ‘ that 's one of the things I had in mind . ’ |
| 22 | It would be impossible here to go into all the things I learned in therapy . |
| 23 | — unspeakable things I did at night |
| 24 | Now interesting because erm one of the things I did before Christmas was I went out to and it I think it 's my memory it 's sixty percent of Scotland is , is , gets its power from nuclear power |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , but he did in the annuals I got for Christmas . |
| 26 | There are obvious resemblances between conventionalism and the positivist semantic theories I discussed in Chapter 1 But there is this important difference . |
| 27 | And that , the answers I got from Government was , use a voluntary body , they do n't have to pay that . |
| 28 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 29 | It was made to seem very radical by the academic lawyers I mentioned in Chapter I , who called themselves legal " realists . " |
| 30 | All you young people as you pass by Pray on my grave now cast an eye Beware of false lovers and their friends I died from poison you may depend . ’ |