Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 2 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 3 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 4 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 5 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of the Great Civil War , by Brigadier Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton . |
| 6 | One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue . |
| 7 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 8 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 9 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 10 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 11 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 12 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 13 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 14 | I argued in an earlier section of this Chapter that questions of value have always had an uncertain place in institutional literary study , and Catherine Belsey explicitly seeks to banish them . |
| 15 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 16 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 17 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 18 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 19 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 21 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 22 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 23 | I qualified as an enrolled nurse in 1977 in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 25 | I was n't positive on this one , so I checked with a leading manufacturer who said it was not wise to mix , as the addition of stain could upset the drying time . |
| 26 | All right then yeah , like I was saying I got into a massive argument with him last night I had an argument with Osman , right |
| 27 | With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 29 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 30 | Erm , I got like a big bird box that we put a little outside bird box and everything |