Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 2 | I made it in the meat dish |
| 3 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
| 4 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 5 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 6 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 7 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 8 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 9 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 10 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 11 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |
| 12 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 13 | I do n't know if I passed her in the street |
| 14 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 15 | ‘ Would n't have known you if'n I passed you in the street , ’ she said , ‘ 'cepting those eyes of yourn . |
| 16 | Th I got them in the electricity board , there three for sixty pence . |
| 17 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 18 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 19 | I got it in the summer erm but then for some reason I decided I did n't like it . |
| 20 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 21 | I found her in the back kitchen , standing over the chef who was rolling out pastry . |
| 22 | I found her in the fog . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I found her in the fog with a sprained ankle and no home or family , ’ said Joe , ‘ so I brought her here to help her get on her feet in all ways . |
| 24 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 25 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 26 | ‘ I found it in the kitchen cupboard . |
| 27 | I found it in the kitchen — empty . |
| 28 | I found it in the armoury and hid it . |
| 29 | I mean I found it in the past , you know any infection what so ever just knocks you for six . |
| 30 | I found it in the TV room . |