Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way .
2 Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months .
3 Then I met my husband and was sure I 'd fallen in love with him because he cared so much .
4 But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’
5 It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’
6 I needed a break and a ticket to Corfu was the medicine I 'd had in mind for a considerable time .
7 Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park .
8 as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then .
9 The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet .
10 I also thought I had fallen in love with a music-teacher .
11 He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ?
12 It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him .
13 ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known .
14 It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain .
15 It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces .
16 To make love to you simply because — I had fallen in love with you . ’
17 I had stayed in bed on Sunday morning , even though Quigley had nearly kicked the door down and then burst into tears all over my duvet .
18 This was followed by shots of John from some pop videos Barbara had made and then some footage that Nick and I had discovered in Damascus of John 's farewell party in Beirut .
19 I had met in London in the 1960's .
20 I had failed in front of the invisible person in the carriage .
21 Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC .
22 Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces .
23 But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps .
24 This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies .
25 I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about .
26 I 've fallen in love with someone . ’
27 I 've fallen in love with it .
28 You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’
29 And I 've fallen in love with this part of the country .
30 I think I 've fallen in love with Rick Mayall now .
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