Example sentences of "[noun sg] and i [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 2 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 3 | Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol . |
| 4 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 5 | When I was small , Uncle Fred was my hero and I listened in awe as he told Dad of some of his experiences as a Marine . |
| 6 | Put down my pen and I heard in my ears the howl of the fleeing dog , saw the metal flash of Sophie 's shoe — I could not bear it . |
| 7 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 8 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 9 | I had to exercise my discretion and I decided in the light of the report from the Serjeant at Arms that 10 minutes was an adequate period . |
| 10 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 11 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 12 | Somehow my father and I remained in boyhood , not developing , turning into big hairy ageing boys . |
| 13 | Well I know the night Lindsey was smoking and she had or something but smelt the smoke on her breath and he got the belt and he gave her a belt and I lay in bed Kay and I cried |
| 14 | This meant my brother and my mum had to share a double bed and I slept in a single one . |
| 15 | The fire man and I rolled in the wet undergrowth . |
| 16 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 17 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 18 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 19 | My French climbing partner and I met in Toulouse and a short drive took us over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 20 | So with a little adding up and subtracting you will see that there were five children in the family and I came in the middle , being the third child . |