Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 2 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 3 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 4 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 5 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 7 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 8 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 9 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 10 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 11 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 12 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 13 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 14 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 15 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 16 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 17 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 18 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 19 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 20 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 21 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 22 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 23 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 24 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 25 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 26 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 27 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 28 | That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it . |
| 29 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 30 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |