Example sentences of "i [vb past] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I planned participant observation among the non-activists at the workplace and the activists at the branch . |
| 2 | I found keyboard control to be better because other keys such as ‘ weapon select ’ and ‘ shields ’ are only a finger stretch away if you are on the keyboard . |
| 3 | I found coal dust on the hearthrug in the main parlour yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | Without recourse to books I recognised terek sandpiper with its long , slightly upturned bill and yellow legs . |
| 5 | Passives are characteristic of the register of scientific papers , as can be seen in the scientific preference for passive " Sodium chloride was added to the solution " , rather than active " I added sodium chloride to the solution " . |
| 6 | When I first bought the vehicle five years ago I noticed gear oil in the boxes . |
| 7 | I drank all my soup , I did n't hunt , I do n't know about fashionable Scotland , I dropped ice cream on the table , I did n't know when to begin to eat . |
| 8 | A few weeks before the investiture I contracted chicken pox from my grandchildren and , unfortunately , in the way that these childish ailments have with older persons , it affected me very badly . |
| 9 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 10 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 11 | In the end , I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room . |
| 12 | I exchanged eye contact with Werewolf 's shades . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's a rector , not a vicar and he is currently incumbent in — ’ I heard paper rustle as if he was turning pages ' — the parish of West Elsworth near Cambridge . |
| 14 | Tony made a brief call to the harbour authorities , we turned into the north wind and I selected carb air to cold while he raised the water rudders and pumped down take-off flap . |
| 15 | As soon as I started work part of my salary went towards buying a radio . |
| 16 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 17 | ‘ I was staying at a hotel , so I rang room service for a raw steak , which arrived with a flower in a vase and a piece of lemon on the side . |
| 18 | Even as I chanted , I felt power return to my muscles . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 20 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
| 21 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 22 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 23 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 24 | Well I did selling side of it but er what resorts tend to do is they get a marketing company in to sell a particular resort and |
| 25 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 26 | I had taxi driver on it this |
| 27 | I mean and when I was a spooler I , I really enjoyed it because I had job satisfaction at the spooling , |
| 28 | I had sherry trifle of des as a desert and I ga gave Peggy half of it ! |