Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between these operations I did occasional voluntary work , mainly on an archaeological site . |
| 2 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 3 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 4 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 5 | I say a Supertravel ad for a ridiculously cheap week and phoned to find that the price applied not to St Anton , Val d'Isere , Verbier or any of the top resorts I considered worthy of my attention , but to a place called Argentiere which had only seven lifts . |
| 6 | It was passed on to me , as your commanding officer , to take whatever steps I felt necessary . |
| 7 | During those months I became anxious , short-tempered and critical . |
| 8 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 9 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 10 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 11 | ‘ In the mid-1950s I found public service very restrictive . |
| 12 | The ‘ bush ’ pilots I knew included ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan , Harry MacConachie and Neville Hollick-Kenyon , the latter being a debonair Englishman who had previously flown for Imperial Airways on the flying boat service from London to New York . |
| 13 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 14 | Twenty years I spent rooted |
| 15 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 16 | For instance , with the gold orange marigolds , I used purpose as an outline , for the pink rose petals I used green . |
| 17 | ‘ He reminded me of so many things I 'd half-forgotten . |
| 18 | During a week 's stay under the ranges I made daily visits to this rich arboretum , which would have served me to investigate until this time without exhausting its treasures ; but , alas ! our provisions failing , we were obliged to re-trace our steps . ’ |
| 19 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 20 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 21 | Over several weekends I humped big loads , all over 40 pounds , and actually became very fond of this pack . |
| 22 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 23 | In some instances I used opposite light colours in outline to the main colours to be blocked in to give more contrast . |
| 24 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 25 | And investigating Neil 's stores I found baked beans , sardines , a couple of small tins of ham , and some crispbread . |
| 26 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 27 | ( Like so many of my fellows I learned Welsh on my mother 's knee . |
| 28 | These are ones I bought long time ago . |
| 29 | ‘ At nine miles I felt fine , but kept thinking that I was only one third of the way round the course . |
| 30 | The pencils I found varied , some would let go of the pigment more easily than others . |