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Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis .
2	His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ .
3	We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits .
4	I got him to sit as a model .
5	He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’
6	I found them built into a cottage .
7	‘ I found them wrapped in a brown-paper parcel with ‘ Dirty Books ’ scrawled on the outside with a purple pencil . ’
8	After a brief search , I found it tucked into a corner , guarded by the pikes and pennants of the Twenty-First Lancers .
9	I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me .
10	After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms .
11	I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage .
12	‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’
13	Then there was another scuffle and I heard him go in a falling of bits of mud .
14	Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words .
15	‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed .
16	‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice .
17	I reckon it 's one of those boys from the army camp , remember I heard her talking about a Carl from the army camp yes
18	I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire .
19	I watched her grow into a tomboy with a smile that encompassed the world ; eyes with the devil inside .
20	I watched her cry and I watched her grow into a beautiful assured young woman with the same infectious grin .
21	‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things .
22	I saw him focus on a boat which lay almost stationary beneath its single sail , fairly close to shore .
23	I saw him lying in a hospital corridor . ’
24	I saw them standing in a crowd ; they told me ‘ We want to prove something , show them something . ’
25	‘ I gathered he fell from a window whilst drunk . ’
26	I thought we lived in a democracy and valued freedom of choice .
27	‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’
28	Souness , who reported that the latest injuries to hit the club were not too serious , added : ‘ It was difficult to entertain in that wind , but I thought we played like a team at times tonight . ’
29	I thought she worked in a building society ?
30	I thought it sounded like a faulty needle but she said ‘ I 've changed I do n't know how many , all on the ribber bed , so I do n't think it 's that . ’