Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 2 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 3 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 4 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 5 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 6 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 7 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I got home with a couple of bags and discovered a horror of horrors . |
| 9 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 10 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 11 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 12 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 13 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 14 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 15 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 16 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 17 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 18 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 19 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 20 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 21 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 22 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 23 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 24 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 25 | I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea . |
| 26 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 27 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 28 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 29 | ‘ I came here under a lot of pressure , knowing I had to succeed , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |