Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 4 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 5 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 6 | and I , I went to see her in open evening , I could n't understand her , cos she you know , she real , I mean she is French |
| 7 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 8 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 9 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 10 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 11 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 12 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 13 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 14 | Yes , that is what I should do , if I wished to match you in devious cunning . |