Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] i [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 2 | After that I dropped to 5 , 7 and out , but he sailed on magisterially . |
| 3 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 4 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 5 | Er all that patch along the and during nineteen I started in nineteen fifty three , and about the end of nineteen fifty four , before Christmas , most of the lot that he had left behind , came down . |
| 6 | I thought I was giving you more than that , ee , first of all I went to fifteen percent , you said |
| 7 | Late in 1981 I travelled across northern China , from Peking in the east to Xian , Urumchi , Turpan and Kashgar in the west . |
| 8 | From 1958 to 1963 I went through various initiation rites , learned the values of the institution , and underwent the training all new constables were then required to follow . |
| 9 | During the period 1955 to 1978 I moved across classificatory police boundaries on more than one occasion . |
| 10 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 11 | At first I looked at that nine and then I went five . |