Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 2 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 3 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 4 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 5 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 7 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 8 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 9 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
| 10 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 11 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 12 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 13 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
| 14 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 15 | Remembering the agony of years gone by , teaching in Sunday School , I grasped at a straw and replied ‘ Sorry no transport ! ’ |
| 16 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 17 | I sleep like a log and never get indigestion . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , reasonably , ’ I say with a smile and turn back to my work . |
| 19 | I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington . |
| 20 | I trained as a lawyer and I think that helps . |
| 21 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 22 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 23 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 24 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 25 | I squinted through a porthole and saw the sky was scraped blue and bright above an empty sea . |
| 26 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 27 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 28 | I came as a foreigner and I 'm told that Suffolk people were stand-offish , difficult to get to know and you 'd be a foreigner for years . |
| 29 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 30 | I put on a spacesuit and went into the cargo area were I found that while the main part of the sculpture was now solidified again , the fibres on the floor were disintegrating and useless . |