Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 3 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 4 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 5 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 6 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 7 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 8 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 9 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 10 | Although I had tarried in the Happy Isles for well over an hour , the actual handjob was the work of a moment — forty-five seconds , I 'd say . |
| 11 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 12 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 13 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 14 | As I 've said in the previous articles , some parts of the swing are more difficult to cope with than others . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've played in the Third Division with Walsall and I do n't want to go back to it . ’ |
| 16 | But I 've lived in the same house with my daughter-in-law for four years . |
| 17 | I 've fished in the Soviet Arctic and in Argentina for example , but just recently had an enjoyable time with the lures in Australia , in Hobart , Tasmania , to be precise . |
| 18 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 19 | Security guard Ed Collett , 32 , from Highbury , north London , said : ‘ It 's the best film I 've seen in the past few years . |
| 20 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 21 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 22 | Over the last six weeks or so I 'll tell you the places I 've been and the people I 've seen in the National Health Service . |
| 23 | all I 've eaten in the last week and one day is salads |
| 24 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 25 | God , the best time I 've had in the past five years was one night with Lachy Watt , angry at Ferg , and more surprised than anything else . |
| 26 | Oh I 've come in the wrong way |
| 27 | I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish . |
| 28 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 29 | Three mornings on the trot I 've been up there and I 've walked in the front door and I can hear him downstairs snoring , still in bed . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |