Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One old lady sitting upright , prim and wearing round National Health Service glasses , became agitated as I approached her chair . |
| 2 | I became concerned when I saw my husband becoming a different person . |
| 3 | He looked offended but I guessed his idea of discretion was swapping his length of lead pipe for a rubber truncheon . |
| 4 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 5 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 6 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |
| 7 | At twelve , I acquired a snooker table , and became cross-eyed as I perfected my strokes . |
| 8 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |