Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became hooked on adventure stories by R.L. Stevenson , Ballantyne , Rider Haggard and many more . |
| 2 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 3 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 4 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 5 | ‘ I got skunked at Sunset ’ , he said . |
| 6 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 7 | I got hooked on student politics as there were many problems in the tech . |
| 8 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 9 | I got to nip round Bet 's . |
| 10 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 11 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 12 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 13 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 14 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 15 | I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous . |
| 16 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 17 | I tried staying in town overnight and then driving home during the day to spend time with Maisie . |
| 18 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 19 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 20 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 21 | I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed . |
| 22 | It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy . |
| 23 | The fundholding practices I visited ranged in size from 12 000 patients ( six partners ) to 17 000 patients ( seven partners ) . |
| 24 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 25 | changed about midnight whereas when I changed go to bed . |
| 26 | ‘ Even as a little kid I used to gaze in motorcycle shop windows and wish I had something like this , ’ says hell for leather Jackie , from Marske near Redcar . |
| 27 | I stopped sleeping at night . |
| 28 | It was so frightful that my daughter Lilya and I stopped travelling by car together . |
| 29 | I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving . |
| 30 | But I stopped going to church around 1983 . |