Example sentences of "i [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 2 | And I made locks for lighthouses , I 'm not boasting my lad , and they 'd li locks , locks for lighthouses pretty near all round the world . |
| 3 | , I got loads of observations here . |
| 4 | I got loads of toiletries and things this year ! |
| 5 | I got loads of plants now . |
| 6 | I got bags of letters , all giving Max tremendous support . |
| 7 | I tried thinking of others , more as a device than a good , and clenched my thigh muscles for a start , to give half an inch more room to the neighbors . |
| 8 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 9 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 10 | Maberly and I reported results in inpatients with asthma and are doing an outpatient double blind randomised trial of neutralisation . |
| 11 | I used 22mm for legs and 16mm for all the others . |
| 12 | for comic relief I ate jelly with chopsticks and raised £7.41 ! |
| 13 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 14 | Soon after this the same Shanny became a dark greeny brown in colour and I noticed rows of eggs on the underside of a rock in his cave . |
| 15 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 16 | However , I received comments from members of our Executive and Branch Committees which helped in drafting our response . |
| 17 | When I announced the results I paid tribute to places such as Wigan and St. Helens |
| 18 | I dodged herds of joggers , cyclists , people playing croquet , baseball , and walked into the theatrical bustle of an operatic cast preparing for an open air performance of Madam Butterfly . |
| 19 | ‘ While all this was going on I began work on Corrections and Police , two magazines founded by the Ford Foundation . |
| 20 | I discovered spots in places where I did n't think it was possible to get spots . |
| 21 | When it stopped raining , I walked streets like rivers to a travel agent and bought a ticket for a flight back to Lima — a real twitcher , in search of ‘ B ’ . |
| 22 | I heard reports of scuffles outside the ground because the turnstiles could n't cope with the late rush — amazingly , the game was allowed to start five minutes early — while inside the stadium many Scots , including the wives and girlfriends of the players , were subjected to verbal abuse . |
| 23 | The book was , naturally , dedicated to Elizabeth , though I heard echoes of murmurings from London lady novelists . |
| 24 | I started relationships with women my own age , but found I could n't take to them because I could n't forget the woman I had married . |
| 25 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 26 | I rang Beryl with condolences and the suggestion that we should meet later in the week . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw evidence of fires . ’ |
| 28 | Such evidence is given by phrases including ‘ I saw women with prams obstructed by the offending vehicle parking across a pavement ’ ; ‘ several motor cars had to negotiate carefully and slowly to pass the offending vehicle ’ etc . |
| 29 | In a book by Rosenau , I saw drawings of buildings designed by Etienne-Louis Boullèe that both moved me and astonished me . |
| 30 | Finally I saw shapes of valleys , hills , crags , the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars , even houses , mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron , the trademark of Polynesia , with the occasional roof of startling white . |