Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " 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 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
| 6 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 9 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
| 10 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 11 | Remembering the agony of years gone by , teaching in Sunday School , I grasped at a straw and replied ‘ Sorry no transport ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I wandered on a yard or two , pretending to look elsewhere . |
| 14 | I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington . |
| 15 | I trained as a lawyer and I think that helps . |
| 16 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 17 | cost money , but as far as this committee is concerned the one , of the particular threats is to strategic planning an and that 's something I , I referred to a moment or two ago . |
| 18 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 19 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 20 | I squinted through a porthole and saw the sky was scraped blue and bright above an empty sea . |
| 21 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rather than mount from the ground , which can take some young horses by surprise just when you do n't want to , I opted for a leg-up and repeated the walk , trot and half transitions . |
| 24 | They insisted that any artist I showed by a member and be approved by their committee . |
| 25 | A teacher came after me but I climbed through a hedge and sat tight for an hour or so . |
| 26 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 27 | I turned after a while and they were still wistfully standing there . |
| 28 | I could have navigated to In Salah , regardless of the piste , unless I stepped on a cobra or got my throat cut , but it was no use getting there alone . |
| 29 | I stumbled to a halt and snapped my fingers through the air . |
| 30 | I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet . |