Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 2 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 3 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 4 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bill was an American photographer I had met in Nicaragua . |
| 8 | There was also a quote from Forbes ; he praised the stand I had taken in the face of management victimisation and stressed my right to real work . |
| 9 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
| 10 | For the best part of an hour I sat swearing in a blocked tunnel under Westway . |
| 11 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 14 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 15 | I was very tempted to gamble the little money I had left in order to try and accumulate some more — tempted also to have a go just for the thrill of it . |
| 16 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 17 | I could n't see how you could get a lot of maths into physics on the grounds of the experience I 'd had in school . |
| 18 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 19 | I sang an obscene ditty I had learnt in the TA , Mike an African song in Matabele , and the Germans some carols . |
| 20 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 21 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 24 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 25 | Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word : |
| 26 | After the wedding I came to live in Baldersdale , at the next farm to Hannah . |
| 27 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 28 | I lay with my feet toward the open end of the tent , unfastened my canteen and boiled what was left of a cabbage I had bought in Adrar . |
| 29 | At the PEN office were Imre Szász of PEN , Ottó Orbán , a poet whose work I had admired in translation , László Kunos , translator and an editor with Corvina , the national publishing house , and Maria Körösy , translator and secretary of Hungarian PEN . |
| 30 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |