Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories ' reduction of public borrowing has been excuse me has seen many public services destroyed or disappeared forever . |
| 2 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 3 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 4 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 5 | you see I 've got two subsids now literally the transfer |
| 6 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 7 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 8 | See I 've got this on tape . |
| 9 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 10 | I mean pinched one of for starters , that makes a difference . |
| 11 | For just a minute I got gone deaf . |
| 12 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 13 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 14 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 15 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 16 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sixty five I got married , I had Bill in sixty six February I got married sixty six , June , I had him . |
| 19 | ‘ I got read tired of being indulgent , ’ says Mark , so he sought ‘ a sweet voice to sing the hard songs , and vice-versa to mess it up a bit . |
| 20 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 21 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 22 | I got told last night . |
| 23 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 24 | And I got paid one and six some weeks for a weekly ticket . |
| 25 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 26 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 27 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 28 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah I did n't realize how long ago it was till I 'd eaten that . |
| 30 | The baggy cut of the jacket made me look as it I 'd eaten one roast dinner too many , however the loose fit gave complete freedom of movement — particularly useful for stretching when scrambling or skiing . |