Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 2 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 3 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 4 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 5 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 6 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 7 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 8 | My dad caught me injecting in the bedroom . |
| 9 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 10 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 12 | Francis told me to stay in the cabana while you were there 'cause you were his wife . |
| 13 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 14 | Did I change in the night ? |
| 15 | What did I get in the talk in eighteen minutes ? |
| 16 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 17 | I nursed my damaged finger , and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff . |