Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 2 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 3 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 4 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 5 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 6 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 7 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 8 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 9 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 10 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 13 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 14 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 15 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 17 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 18 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 19 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 20 | I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’ |
| 21 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 22 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 23 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 24 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 25 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 26 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 27 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 28 | I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . |
| 29 | I cooked it in a cheap saucepan . |
| 30 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |