Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
2 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
4 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
5 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
6 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
7 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
8 | I got bitten by a rat . |
9 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
10 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
11 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |
12 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
13 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
14 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
15 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
16 | Well that 's what he said oh no when he went to sleep I did I 'd done about a page this is what I read out , I went Professor Plop and the Time Machine . |
17 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
18 | I 'd struggled through a freelance career using a wonderful old black upright Imperial typewriter , the kind hammered manically by Jack ( ‘ Cigarette me ! ’ ) |
19 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
20 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
21 | I 'd thought of a course of Lenten addresses . ’ |
22 | A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’ |
23 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
24 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
25 | No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ? |
26 | She told you I 'd left with a bag . |
27 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
28 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
29 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
30 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |