Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i had " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That is my message from the experience I had , ’ he said . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 34 | When I began to visit Chedworth many years ago , often with a party of students , I well remember the difficulty I had in explaining the buildings in these terms . |
| 35 | ‘ Actually , ’ says she , exaggerating the poshness I had not realised was in the word . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The fiction I had read predicted gaudy roles for me — as private tutor at the old stone mansion where peacocks roost in the yew hedges and chalky bones are discovered in the sealed-up priest 's hole ; as gullible ingénu at an eccentric private establishment on the Welsh borders stuffed with robust drunkards and covert lechers . |
| 39 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 40 | During holidays at The Milebrook I found once again the freedom I had known in Abyssinia , but now for only three months in the year . |
| 41 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 42 | Rejoice in the hope I had , that 's lovely is n't it ? |
| 43 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 44 | I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence . |
| 45 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 46 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 47 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 48 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 49 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 50 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 51 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | He was heading towards the baths I had just left . |
| 54 | Where was the pond I had waded across , where was the path to the car ? |
| 55 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 56 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 59 | Whatever fear of the future I had , I would overcome it ; it was nothing to my loathing of the past . |
| 60 | I realise that the guy in the topcoat was not a loner , but a set-up staged by Richardson ; that Richardson is not the no-hoper I had thought . |