Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 2 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 3 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 4 | Such reasons I dubbed above ‘ dependent reasons ’ . |
| 5 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 7 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 8 | Several schools coaches I spoke to pointed out that , by the end of the season of the new law , most of the boys had worked out ways and means of blocking the ball . |
| 9 | The two , the two insurance policies I had of erm er the house were on |
| 10 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 11 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 12 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 13 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 14 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 15 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 16 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 17 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 18 | For more than two hours I stood at bay while a nonstop torrent of crockery poured down on me ; thousands and thousands of plates , every one bearing a smear of cottage pie , a blob of cold gravy , a few adhering chips . |
| 19 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 20 | I realized , thinking about it afterwards , that they were the numbers of the various different bus-routes I used on my way to school , together with the relevant extracts from their timetables . |
| 21 | Why are they so special to me , these two , why do I remember that one kiss out of all the other romances I knew about there in that place on that particular Friday evening , why do I remember it , do I actually remember it all or just want to ? |
| 22 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 23 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 25 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 26 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 27 | After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green . |
| 28 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 29 | and it was exact amount of coins I had in my pocket ! |
| 30 | I 'll tell you some of the titles I thought of calling it . |