Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , I mooched about in a pair of basketball boots mended with a bicycle repair kit , eating ketchup on bread , and staring at a wart on my finger the size and texture of a tiny cauliflower . |
| 2 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 3 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 4 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 6 | We went to Ireland for the summer and our visit there was great fun ; Brian and I drove about in a donkey-cart , fished for eels , and shot rabbits with a 410 . |
| 7 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 8 | I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning . |
| 9 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 10 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |
| 11 | I tied up in a cove west of here , just beyond the headland . ’ |
| 12 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 13 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 14 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 15 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 16 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 17 | I grew up in a house where the smells of preparation and cooking began , below stairs , not long after I rose . |
| 18 | I know , I grew up in a village . ’ |
| 19 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 20 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 21 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 22 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 23 | Once I dressed up in a big , black shag wig , really tacky . |
| 24 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 25 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 26 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 27 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 28 | I sat down in a very deep sofa . |
| 29 | I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ . |
| 30 | I ended up in a bunkhouse : ‘ Women to the left at the top of the stairs , men to the right , if you 're bothered about these kinds of things . ’ |