Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 4 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 5 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 6 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 7 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 8 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 9 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 10 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 11 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 12 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 13 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 14 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |