Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 2 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 3 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 4 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 5 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 6 | The cities I had seen in England and France left me unmoved ; their crowds had no interest for me : they lacked the colour and variety for which I craved . |
| 7 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 8 | It was a characteristic I had noticed in most of the Germans I had met since being shot down . |
| 9 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
| 10 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 11 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 12 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 13 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 14 | The lack of space , the cold , the absence of hot water — all these contingencies I negotiated with the skills I had acquired in domestic science ( my best subject ) and as a Girl Guide . |
| 15 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 16 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 17 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 18 | He was heading towards the baths I had just left . |
| 19 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 20 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 21 | In the glimpses I had of her personal life , one feature always came through . |
| 22 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 23 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 24 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 25 | To throw in the towel would mean the end of misery , a shower , clean sheets , good food and reunion with my family after the months I had spent in training camp . |
| 26 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 27 | The words I had wanted to hear . |
| 28 | The words I had written — and had almost , in the interval , forgotten — mocked me and were meaningless . |
| 29 | Just before Christmas I was intrigued to get a letter in careful dictionary English from Kenya , saying that the sender had read my book and was now putting some kit together along the lines I had suggested . |
| 30 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |