Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them in an old file . |
| 2 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 3 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 4 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 5 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 6 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 7 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 8 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 9 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 11 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 12 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |