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| 5 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of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 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 18 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 19 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 20 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Erm , I got like a big bird box that we put a little outside bird box and everything |
| 25 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 26 | I got in a bad way . |
| 27 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 28 | ‘ Let's just say I got in a tight spot . ’ |
| 29 | Here is a message I got from a tame Man U supporter on the subject we are all discussing . |
| 30 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |