Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 3 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 4 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 5 | That 's what I intend to use in the eh . |
| 6 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 8 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 9 | I got boil in the bag fish tomorrow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 13 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 14 | You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 17 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 21 | Well I tend to move in the same fleet . |
| 22 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 23 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 24 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 25 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect to stay in the competition — Derry are favourites but Cup football all about shocks , ’ he warns . |
| 27 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 28 | In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat . |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes I forget to put in the right things . ’ |
| 30 | Well , you see , the trouble is Marg I go out on my bike and I think , ooh it 's cold I 'll and then I forget going in the |