Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [verb] [prep] " 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 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 7 | All I 'd say on five chairman is that this issue of infrastructure particularly sewerage , sewerage , foul water and water supply is a major issue in York and the location of the new settlement I think needs to be very closely assessed in terms of er of five . |
| 8 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 9 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 10 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 11 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 12 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 13 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 14 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 15 | Tell me about the pedal board I 've seen on stage … |
| 16 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 17 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 18 | This is a law-abiding county , and this is the worst homicide case I have seen in more than 20 years as a lawyer here . ’ |
| 19 | In all the circumstances of this case I have come to the conclusion that on balance the children 's interests are better served by their being allowed to remain in England pending a determination by the High Court , in the exercise of its wardship jurisdiction , as to their future and whether it be in England or Australia . |
| 20 | In this case I have talked to Council officials , and I think they would be prepared to offer to buy the land . |
| 21 | You know , just in case I need to get in touch . ’ |
| 22 | There were bitter memories of broken love for Alan , a good-looking Londoner I had fallen for while I was still at Madame Sheba 's . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Chairman I think going to the points that Mr Donson made , there have been major changes . |
| 25 | Bill was an American photographer I had met in Nicaragua . |
| 26 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 27 | Through my mother and my sisters , this was the stereotype I had learned at home . |
| 28 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 29 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 30 | WordPerfect 5.1 is undoubtedly the most powerful DOS word processor I 've looked at ; it 's packed to the brim with features . |