Example sentences of "i [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 2 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 3 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 4 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 5 | I hated sitting in a classroom all day . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 7 | I heard panting like a hunted stag . |
| 8 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 9 | I started getting into a heavy scene though , y'know , building up a debt , like . |
| 10 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |
| 11 | On leaving college , I started teaching in a North London suburb . |
| 12 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 13 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 14 | ‘ When I came back to England after my divorce I started working in a modelling agency . ’ |
| 15 | Er well I started going for a holiday by myself when I was about er |
| 16 | I started lecturing at a college of higher education in 1978 but returned to research and soft money in 1980 as soon as my husband had left . |
| 17 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |
| 18 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |
| 19 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 20 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 21 | and I did a handbrake turn , yeah , and it did n't work and I went whizzing into a tree totalled the car . |
| 22 | Last night Dr Clarke 's election agent Kevin Scott said : ‘ One of our supporters lives in Vine Street and Donald and I went knocking on a few doors . |
| 23 | He gained third place in the 1988 Ilford Photographic Awards Features category for one of those pictures , but jokes that on his arrival in Africa ‘ I kept looking for a cheque presentation because that 's all I was trained to do . ’ |
| 24 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 25 | I leaned panting against a lamppost , while Doris tenderly removed the segments of toffee orange and chocolate cake that still clung to my suit . |
| 26 | Instead , I ran screaming like a banshee into the garden engulfed in coils of stiffened pipe and looking like some mythical figure being consumed by a serpent . |
| 27 | For the best part of an hour I sat swearing in a blocked tunnel under Westway . |
| 28 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 29 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 30 | I stood staring for a long while . |