Example sentences of "the [adj] i [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 2 | For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation . |
| 3 | As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse : |
| 4 | can understand something , it 's my birthday , right May the seventh I want a present . |
| 5 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 6 | As I walked to the fair I noticed a polystyrene cup , a discarded baby 's dummy and a chicken leg ; hardly a balanced diet for a fox . |
| 7 | However , on the 13th I wrote a letter to my parents , which I had absolutely no intention of sending . |