Example sentences of "an [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 2 | But the comm-screen exposes faces in the harshest detail , and for an instant I saw something move at the back of his wet old eyes , like a creature threshing in a net . |
| 3 | They reminded me of my patient , Cedric , and in an instant I was back in Darrowby answering the telephone . |
| 4 | For an instant I thought I saw his face behind the mask — it was only an instant and then it was gone , but I nearly fainted . |
| 5 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 6 | For a fraction of an instant I thought I had ceased to exist myself . |
| 7 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 8 | And , presumably you had an Aborigine I do n't know , it 's very odd . |
| 9 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 10 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 11 | As an auditionee I knew I worked best if I attempted something outrageous so I prepared Lord Foppington from The Relapse and you just have to let go with his Lordship otherwise there 's no point to it . |
| 12 | Filling you garden with colour from plants raised from seeds you have sown yourself is definitely very satisfying and an experience I 'm sure you 'll soon enjoy . |
| 13 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 14 | It was not an experience I would wish to endure very often . |
| 15 | All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat . |
| 16 | ‘ It was not an experience I would wish to relive but we consider ourselves very lucky indeed . |
| 17 | ‘ When I came out again my weight had gone down to 8 stone and it 's definitely an experience I would n't like to go through again , but it gives you a new outlook on life . |
| 18 | My first visit was accomplished by walking , an experience I shall recount later . |
| 19 | I remarked it was an experience I would not care to repeat . |
| 20 | And therefore I , I would like to tell you an experience I had in Madagascar because it 's one of the things that will be in my memory on my deathbed . |
| 21 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 22 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 23 | It was Mother who nursed us through it and it was an experience I would n't like to repeat . |
| 24 | It was an experience I will never forget , and one of which , when I returned home , I felt deeply ashamed . |
| 25 | ‘ An experience I will never forget ’ |
| 26 | All in all , an experience I will never forget — thanks to Winning Ideas . |
| 27 | But er it 's so simple today when you realize the , the difference , how easy it is and but er that was an experience I can tell you . |
| 28 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 29 | It is an experience I will never forget . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's not an experience I 'd care to go through again . |