Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 2 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 3 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 4 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 5 | ‘ I got zapped by a flying saucer , ’ Bill explained . |
| 6 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 7 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 8 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 9 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 10 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 11 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 12 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 13 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 14 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 15 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 16 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 17 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 18 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 19 | These are the most common questions I get asked as a social researcher . |
| 20 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 21 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 22 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 23 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 24 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 25 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 26 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 27 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 28 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 29 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 30 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |