Example sentences of "[noun prp] i [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 3 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 6 | I was so impressed by this young man that immediately on my return to Vancouver I wrote a long and detailed letter to my parliamentary friend at the House of Commons in Ottawa , A.M. ‘ Sandy ’ Nicholson , M.P. , urging more federal action for the case of the Indian . |
| 7 | As a patron of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Clubs of greater Vancouver I enjoyed a happy professional association with Sir Ernest for some years . |
| 8 | At LimoRent on Third Avenue I hired a six-door Jefferson with cocktail bar , TV and telephone . |
| 9 | At Cosford I received a sobering shock , being beaten by Lincoln Asquith in the 60 metres . |
| 10 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 11 | Simply by studying Nottinghamshire I developed a strong general knowledge of cricket . ’ |
| 12 | It was a fair price to pay , Richard I made a good and trusted friend that day . |
| 13 | And echoing across Loch Garten I heard the last wintering whooper swans and the trills of common sandpipers . |
| 14 | ‘ From day one at Tottenham I had the opposite feeling , even when I was in the team . ’ |
| 15 | When we moved to Scotland I discovered the greatest delicacy of all — the smoked herring , or kipper . |
| 16 | One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper . |
| 17 | In the fifth sitting of the Committee on 19 December I had the following to say : ’ It would not be helpful to establish such a council on 1 April 1993 when the colleges become self-governing and will require a period of stability . |
| 18 | Just over a week into December I received an early Christmas present : a letter from the Prince 's Trust containing a cheque for £200 ! |
| 19 | One night in Chipping Norton I met a married woman and fell deeply in love with her . |
| 20 | On Wednesday 20th November I caught the 1540 ex . |
| 21 | Faced with the prospect of watching a fat geordie sweating himself to death on a sofa or driving down the A1 to Elland Road I chose the latter and watched the Swindon game . |
| 22 | From Raymond Williams I learnt the political and moral consequences and obligations of being educated away from the life you were born into . |
| 23 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 24 | There is an expression , ‘ the unassailable complacency of the mother of eight ’ , and with Wilson I had the unassailable confidence of someone five feet eight inches high in the presence of a man she knows instinctively to admire tall women . |
| 25 | I had just told him that on my arrival in South Africa I received a pressing invitation to Rhodesia , where I am now writing . |
| 26 | I knew the guys in the punk bands because they were the people I spent time with : people like Joe Strummer and Paul Weller I felt a great affection for as men , as well as admiring what they did . ’ |
| 27 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 28 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 29 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 30 | ‘ Behind Sir Hugo I saw a huge and terrible hound running silently . |