Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 3 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 4 | Already , I felt , I could feel the benefit of the work I had been undertaking . |
| 5 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 6 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 7 | Often , when I switched on the light to make sure that the dish was scraped clean , I was disgusted at the mess I had been eating . |
| 8 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 9 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 10 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 11 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 12 | For two years previous to the war I had been painting ; before that I was a school master teaching drawing and painting . |
| 13 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 14 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 15 | All the while I had been telling my young passenger what I was going to do . |
| 16 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 17 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 18 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 19 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 20 | I left him the fare I had been quoted , but he pursued me and stopped me entering my flat . |
| 21 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you awake , Jane ? ’ asked the voice I had been expecting . |
| 23 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 24 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 25 | I trembled so much I broke the vase I had been dusting , and I felt a sweet fountain of delight flow up through me . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 27 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 28 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 29 | This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow . |
| 30 | I had n't run against Ben that year and I was confident of beating Carl and him , because of the way I had been running . |