Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 2 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 3 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 4 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 5 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 7 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 8 | You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye . |
| 9 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 10 | Cos he had the silver , they had the the ju er co coronation and it er in the May , as your dad and I got married in the June . |
| 11 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 12 | No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything . |
| 13 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 14 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |
| 15 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 16 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 17 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 18 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 19 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house . |
| 21 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 22 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 23 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 24 | During our journey on the Northern Line I 'd sketched in the background to his coming to England in ‘ 38 , fleeing the Nazis . |
| 25 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 26 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 27 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 28 | A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it . |
| 29 | But it was no good , little bits fell out , and I 'd started in the most obvious place , where he 's bound to spot it . |
| 30 | In New York I 'd sat in the winter sun on wooden steps at South Street pier and swapped cards with an old girlfriend , now a free-lance writer . |