Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 2 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
| 3 | The first time I got charged with chequebooks and cards I got two years ' probation . |
| 4 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 5 | Some things I found led to moments of great distress , as evidence ( which I was subsequently able to disprove ) suggested the strong possibility of his having been executed by the enemy . |
| 6 | I sat alone in the canteen at college , I stopped drinking in pubs and chatty male bus conductors and shop assistants were met with blank stares . |
| 7 | I stopped going to parties , stopped drinking and threw myself into the regime of Ron 's hard training schedules . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ I 'd heard of babies born addicted to drugs . |
| 9 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 10 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 11 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 12 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 13 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 15 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 16 | erm Yes it 's quite interesting I mean the if you go and look at the computerised facility that I 'd found about communications training , there are something like three hundred and ninety two sources of training in Scotland . |
| 17 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 18 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 19 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
| 20 | Now , slowly I began to come to terms with guilt . |
| 21 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 22 | It was about the age when I started thinking about things . |
| 23 | If I started thinking about things … personal things in my life , I have the feeling I might never stop . |
| 24 | I started to walk on eggshells for fear of setting him off . ’ |
| 25 | Gradually I lost the courage to speak out about anything or to question anyone ; I started suffering from palpitations . |
| 26 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 27 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 28 | As you can imagine , I talked knitting for hours with her and the other knitters who were kind enough to look after me . |
| 29 | It 's a thingy Oh silly I meant to go to Children 's World and buy nappies have to do it tomorrow now . |
| 30 | Then Fif 's mandroids pushed their way through , and in the melee I managed to scuttle on hands and knees among all the legs before getting up and getting myself and my aching face away from there . |