Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 2 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 4 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 5 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 6 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 7 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
| 8 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 9 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 10 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 12 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 13 | Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't believe my eyes , Leonora , when I saw you standing in the middle of the room down there . |
| 15 | I Did you put in the there ? |
| 16 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 17 | cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I have n't been able to fart all week , she says ! |