Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 2 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 3 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 4 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 5 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 6 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 7 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 8 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 9 | I got injured in this game as well . |
| 10 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 11 | I got boil in the bag fish tomorrow . |
| 12 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 13 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 14 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 15 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 16 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 17 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
| 18 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 19 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 20 | Oh it would n't have cost nothing , it would cost me something if I got caught in them days bloody ration . |
| 21 | You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 24 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 25 | ‘ I got wounded in France . |
| 26 | Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way . |
| 27 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 28 | ‘ My wife and I got married in that church ’ |
| 29 | Cos he had the silver , they had the the ju er co coronation and it er in the May , as your dad and I got married in the June . |
| 30 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |