Example sentences of "a [noun] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 2 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 3 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 4 | A drug I shot in San Francisco froze all my joints . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 9 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 11 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 12 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 13 | so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way |
| 14 | As a result I withdrew into myself , treated overtures of friendship with mistrust , and was easily provoked . |
| 15 | and erm I 'll be , we knit jumpers as well there , cardigans and as pick them a cardigan I bought from Blacks in Newcastle |
| 16 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 17 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 18 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 19 | As a child I survived by forgetting . |
| 20 | In a dream I went to the pictures , in Germany I think . |
| 21 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 22 | So in a panic I went into a room , closed the door , and started screaming until I got hoarse . |
| 23 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 24 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 25 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 27 | Bernard Rhodes , for example , was always in the shop and he was always up for a chat I talked to him a lot and we struck up a rapport . |
| 28 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 29 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 30 | I used to work as a boy I did on . |