Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 2 | I heard er er der at er erm parked in the other car park I heard the hoofs go bang ! |
| 3 | In the living room I found the usual debris . |
| 4 | For example , having gone straight ahead without referring to the chart gallery I created the default Pie Chart and was dissatisfied because I could find no way of exploding one of the slices . |
| 5 | By my dancing presence I kept the pests away . |
| 6 | Seeking escape routes I found the only other Customs Waterguard Station , seemingly more unpopular than Heathrow , available at that time was Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides and when I rang HQ one day to see if it was still open . |
| 7 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 8 | Normally this point is proved by the officer in the case examining the registration document and including in his statement a passage such as ‘ On examining the vehicle 's registration document I saw the date of first registration was … ’ |
| 9 | As I work as a mechanic on diesel engines I had the opportunity of testing the output of the ‘ W ’ terminal , and it was , as the text books said , 7 to 8 volts . |
| 10 | The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ? |
| 11 | That night over dinner in the company of Peter and his wife Liz I became the possessor of an astonishing fact . |
| 12 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 13 | And " Here also the Bridge under which on many a Sabbath day I witnessed the Baptists performing the Sacred rite of dipping in the river . " |
| 14 | And " Here also the Bridge under which on many a Sabbath day I witnessed the Baptists performing the Sacred rite of dipping in the river . " |
| 15 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 16 | ‘ As you know , my husband commanded 2 Para and as an Army wife I knew the Parachute Regiment for many years . |
| 17 | And from this kernel notion I developed the plot of my first Inspector Ghote novel called — wait for it — The Perfect Murder . |
| 18 | Congress Neil I raised the subject last year about nuclear waste and what was the position as far as Rossythe was concerned . |
| 19 | Well there 's something wrong with the washing machine I got the |
| 20 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 21 | Cos of the bus strike I went the way I normally go though . |
| 22 | After a short and furious rest in the potato store I entered the women 's hospital , inflexibly determined on an inspection . |
| 23 | As a novice carver I found the MAC650 very useful for controlled shaping of curved pieces with flowing lines . |
| 24 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 25 | Then from 802–811 the usurper Nicephorus I held the throne . |
| 26 | As part of the design to construction stage I developed the ‘ Gothic bracket ’ . |
| 27 | In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive . |
| 28 | In fact , our constituency Tory MP is hard-working and conscientious , and deserved to be returned : but in terms of party politics I felt the Tories had had a long enough crack of the whip . |