Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 2 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 3 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 4 | ‘ I met Elaine in the hospital Outpatients . |
| 5 | I got Daine in the chest , over the heart . |
| 6 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 7 | As soon as I left school I found work in the local Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura . |
| 8 | In accordance with Sod 's law , I found resistance in the final section . |
| 9 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 10 | I found Bunny in the girls ' kitchen the next morning trying to find something to eat that was n't raw carrot , muesli or Ryvita and something to drink other than herbal tea . |
| 11 | When I visited Glasgow in the late '60s Robert Clow was manager of the University Shop in Gibson Street . |
| 12 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |
| 13 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |
| 14 | I entered Whacker in the book and |
| 15 | Then I headed north in the general direction of Redbridge to the Aurora Borealis Bide-A-Wee rest home or whatever they called it , determined to get Zaria well sorted . |
| 16 | I recognised Aaron in the audience . |
| 17 | ‘ I burned rubber in the car all the way to the hospital . |
| 18 | I interviewed Jane in the Easter term of her final year at B , at a time when she felt thoroughly disillusioned with the course , though not with university , which she had enjoyed . |
| 19 | and I played football in the street with the boys cos you had nothing else to do , you had nowhere else to go in my time ! |
| 20 | I slugged MacLane in the face . |
| 21 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 22 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
| 23 | ‘ My wife and I spent Christmas in the Bahamas . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My father turned farmer — well , small farmer : he had about two hundred acres ; and my brother and I spent days in the fields . |
| 25 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 26 | I heard Marcus in the kitchen and ran back inside . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard music in the night . ’ |
| 28 | I heard footsteps in the hall below , then the kitchen light click off . |
| 29 | ‘ Next thing I heard noises in the hallway and shots being fired . |
| 30 | ‘ I heard voices in the night . ’ |