Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i in the " in BNC.

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1 Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ?
2 You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’
3 ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki .
4 You helped me in the early days .
5 Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us .
6 Then she looked me in the eye and smiled .
7 She looked me in the eyes , not smiling .
8 I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over .
9 They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head .
10 They kept me in the police station for two weeks : nobody knew where I was , not even my solicitor .
11 The way they treated me in the mother and baby unit , it did n't seem as though it was my baby .
12 They had me in the holding cells at headquarters .
13 When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games .
14 But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar .
15 He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls .
16 He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled .
17 So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie .
18 He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning .
19 He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way .
20 He said yes Mrs well then he followed me in the kitchen , stood behind me and I thought what the hell 's he hanging about for , I 'm gon na take it to him and the , his son- in-law was there
21 He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me .
22 ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’
23 The first thing I was conscious of was the smell ; I 'd ceased to notice it when I was in and out all the time , but after a week away from it , it hit me in the face .
24 Sent memos all round , you know and he called me in the office that day , to say I 'm really disappointed in you , I said , what do you mean ?
25 It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year .
26 He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out .
27 Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see
28 My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness .
29 He looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Two more . ’
30 That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’
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