Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 .
2 ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game .
3 ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ?
4 I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen .
5 I got boil in the bag fish tomorrow .
6 Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical .
7 ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine .
8 Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out .
9 You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye .
10 Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
11 But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion .
12 Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment .
13 Cos he had the silver , they had the the ju er co coronation and it er in the May , as your dad and I got married in the June .
14 ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes .
15 In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite .
16 Oh yeah , well that was where I learnt to swim in the canal on Road , er it 's the bridge that goes over Lane , near , near .
17 No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything .
18 Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together .
19 I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that .
20 So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office .
21 There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’
22 After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory .
23 ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house .
24 But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop .
25 At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon .
26 I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit .
27 During our journey on the Northern Line I 'd sketched in the background to his coming to England in ‘ 38 , fleeing the Nazis .
28 I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman .
29 I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood .
30 ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's .
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