Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool .
2 After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat .
3 Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’
4 I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment .
5 We went to Ireland for the summer and our visit there was great fun ; Brian and I drove about in a donkey-cart , fished for eels , and shot rabbits with a 410 .
6 I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it .
7 I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning .
8 Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off .
9 I tied up in a cove west of here , just beyond the headland . ’
10 I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit .
11 Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year .
12 I know , I grew up in a village . ’
13 I grew up in a house where the smells of preparation and cooking began , below stairs , not long after I rose .
14 I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room .
15 I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying .
16 I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ .
17 Me dad had hit us with a belt , that 's why I ended up in a home .
18 I ended up in a bunkhouse : ‘ Women to the left at the top of the stairs , men to the right , if you 're bothered about these kinds of things . ’
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