Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hugged her in front of the Matisses . |
| 2 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 3 | Luckily , I made it in time . |
| 4 | I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire |
| 5 | ’ I met her in town one day last week . |
| 6 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Matthews and I got them in town , Dr Streeter . |
| 8 | I found him in bed with me . |
| 9 | ‘ I found her in church earlier on today , howling into her flower arrangement . |
| 10 | In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh ! |
| 11 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 12 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 13 | I seen him in town and er |
| 14 | because I mentioned it in Playback because I thought er , trouble is within a |
| 15 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 16 | I told them in school about you and they said I was ideally positioned . ’ |
| 17 | Once back , I transferred them in Information Technology 's main system and used Adobe Photoshop to convert the full colour images to black and white , adjusting the brightness , contrast and grey levels to give more punch to the shots . |
| 18 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 19 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 20 | I shook mine in wonderment . |
| 21 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 22 | I ordered it in advance to stop Robert trying to persuade me to stay on . ’ |
| 23 | Each morning I swaddled them in cotton wool and boxes of Band-Aids . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry I broke you in sacrifice . |
| 25 | As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye . |
| 26 | I watched him in horror . |
| 27 | I watched him in disbelief for my master was usually keen to observe the finest etiquette at table . |
| 28 | I watched her in fascination . |
| 29 | I hailed her in English , she answered , ‘ I ay ‘ . |
| 30 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |