Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 2 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 3 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 4 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 5 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 6 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 7 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 8 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 9 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 11 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 12 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 13 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 14 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 15 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 16 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 17 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
| 18 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 19 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 20 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 21 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ Mick and I answered in simultaneous relief . |
| 23 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 24 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 25 | Until this point , of course , I had believed myself quite alone and I turned in some surprise . |
| 26 | Before I left Fontanellato my father had told me that although he was not against my trying to see Mussolini he would be very upset if I indulged in any kind of cheering or applause . |
| 27 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 28 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 29 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 30 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |