Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] i in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 2 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 3 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 4 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 5 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 6 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 7 | It felt like an elephant had hit me in the guts . |
| 8 | The ball had hit me in the leg . |
| 9 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 10 | What had abhorred me in the past and sometimes , er , perhaps arrive and been to the church and say , oh by the way it 's communion ! |