Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became hooked on adventure stories by R.L. Stevenson , Ballantyne , Rider Haggard and many more . |
| 2 | The opera was great , but I would n't have paid for that , I mean compared to rock erm a rock concert performance and most of the rock concert was twenty quid a ticket |
| 3 | ‘ I got skunked at Sunset ’ , he said . |
| 4 | I got hooked on student politics as there were many problems in the tech . |
| 5 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 6 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 7 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 8 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 9 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 10 | I woke drenched in sweat and homesick |
| 11 | And I 'd gone off passion . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd gone to school longer than the others . |
| 13 | Okay I pretended I 'd gone to school and I 'd |
| 14 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 15 | I 'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence . |
| 16 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 18 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 19 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 20 | Yeah I put all the nurseries , all the placements I 'd done at college an at and the employment . |
| 21 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 23 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 24 | Then I met my husband and was sure I 'd fallen in love with him because he cared so much . |
| 25 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 26 | It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’ |
| 27 | And there were the prizes I 'd accumulated through primary , books for Good Attendance or General Merit , in which I usually came top girl . |
| 28 | I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers . |
| 29 | In the end I threw my yoghurt pot full of glue at her and said the ‘ f ’ word I 'd learnt from Auntie . |
| 30 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |