Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] i [vb past] in " in BNC.

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1 I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination .
2 All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me .
3 Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond .
4 ‘ I still lie awake at night trying to justify the decision I made in Libya .
5 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 .
6 Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist .
7 One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt .
8 ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’
9 It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four
10 If one of the dietary amino acids is made radioactive ( as in the experiment I described in Chapter 2 ) and fed to or injected into an animal , it is incorporated into the proteins just as its fellow , non-radioactive amino acids are , and the proteins become slightly radioactive in their turn by virtue of containing the radioactive amino acid .
11 I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already .
12 She 's the sister of the man who owned Grye — the horse I rode in the race .
13 Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire .
14 Oh , wait a minute , could you bring me the crutch I left in my room ? ’
15 At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year .
16 ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang .
17 Secondly , there is the question I addressed in my research of how notions of child abuse are applied to particular cases .
18 But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted .
19 I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’
20 I would like to emphasise the point I made in my previous letter , that a recent BMA survey showed that 85 percent of doctors believe a ban on animal research would damage medical progress .
21 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people .
22 I refused to be the tracer for the aeroplane company , I said no , I got the job I wanted in an advertising firm .
23 Well the article I read in it , it said erm , you know you can drink gallons of it , I mean I do n't know
24 During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff .
25 But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning .
26 At the top I fumbled in my pockets for my key .
27 It is the pineapple I noticed in Mrs Rodriguez 's home .
28 A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man .
29 Er I do n't know , nineteen fifty , right until the day I left in nineteen seventy six .
30 On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc .
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