Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 3 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 4 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 5 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 6 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 7 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 8 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 9 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 10 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 11 | The Marxist book I reviewed with several others in The Criterion for October 1937 . |
| 12 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 13 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
| 14 | I did n't entirely freak out , I just dabbled : I dabbled in all sorts of things . ’ |
| 15 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
| 16 | I stopped at some lights on the East side . |
| 17 | While I suffered from these dreams on my slab of rock , something woke me . |
| 18 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 19 | In the course of work on the Mesozoic rocks of the High Atlas mountains of Morocco , I came across some deposits in the Upper Jurassic near Imouzzer-des-Ida-ou-Tanane which I could only interpret as having resulted from the effect of storms on lagoonal sediments ( plates 4.5 and 4.6 ) . |
| 20 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 21 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 22 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 23 | Later , I came to more trees with many different fruits . |
| 24 | Going down several inches I came upon some links of chain . |
| 25 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 26 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 27 | ‘ There was something I noticed about those references , ’ I added in recompense . |
| 28 | That evening I hid among some trees outside the town , and went to sleep . |
| 29 | The only contract for endorsing a product I obtained in those days was for Churchman 's cigarettes . ’ |
| 30 | I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines . |