Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way . |
| 2 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 3 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 4 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 5 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 6 | Then I met my husband and was sure I 'd fallen in love with him because he cared so much . |
| 7 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 8 | It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers . |
| 10 | I 'd worked with Eddie on a Boozebuster before . |
| 11 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 12 | I needed a break and a ticket to Corfu was the medicine I 'd had in mind for a considerable time . |
| 13 | First pieces of the sky fall on my house , then I get attacked by bits of the sea . |
| 14 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 15 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 16 | ‘ I had moved to France with the very firm intention of trying to write a novel ; the other books [ including the bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ] got in the way . |
| 17 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 18 | By the time I had children of my own , I had overcome by fear to a great extent but I was still a little nervous . |
| 19 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 20 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 21 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 22 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 23 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 24 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 25 | I also thought I had fallen in love with a music-teacher . |
| 26 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 27 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 28 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 29 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 30 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |