Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone .
2 I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper .
3 We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could .
4 German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism .
5 I read in the papers last week benzene , the benzene is used in unleaded petrol .
6 That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black .
7 I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) .
8 I crept up the stairs and stuck my head between the banisters , but the landing was empty .
9 No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could .
10 I crept behind the curtains and looked out .
11 Was it any wonder I resorted to the drinks cabinet in the director 's Portakabin ?
12 I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers .
13 I lived for the cliches , I awaited them .
14 Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal .
15 Erm I lived in the flats from Christmas eighty three till September eighty five .
16 For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children .
17 Well , I fought with the Russians , the Prussians also ,
18 I agreed with the points that he made then and that is precisely what we have done .
19 I stalked amongst the booths and ramshackle dwellings built against the wall .
20 I checked under the jeans to make sure I was n't wearing the Donald Duck boxer shorts .
21 I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview .
22 According to Gawley , Dunlop had agreed to make alterations to the gear box immediately after the North West race but he added : ‘ When I got to the pits at the North West immediately after the 125 class had been run off , I saw the bike lying there with no-one attending to it .
23 Strangely enough , I got into the blues .
24 I got into the arms trade as an idealist , ’ he says , taking a long draw on his Rothmans cigarette .
25 I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one .
26 Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three .
27 I got on the brakes because there was no way through .
28 It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots
29 Keys I get them out I still lost those ones that I got with the matches .
30 Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair .
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