Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I found them in a book and I took them . |
| 32 | I found them in an old file . |
| 33 | I found one in a cave in the Scilly Isles . |
| 34 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 35 | ‘ I found it in a street in London . ’ |
| 36 | I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars . |
| 37 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 38 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 39 | I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’ |
| 40 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 41 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 42 | I enjoyed it in a way , but B. was very impossible — she must have drunk nearly a bottle of brandy , and then at 9 o'clock I left and refused either to stay any longer or spend the night there . |
| 43 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |
| 44 | ‘ I jammed it in a mangle as a child . |
| 45 | I stuck them in a milk bottle cos I ai n't got a proper flower vase , but they look OK like that I reckon . |
| 46 | I spent it in a heavily gardened suburb of Hamburg called Eissendorf . |
| 47 | I cooked it in a cheap saucepan . |
| 48 | So I settled myself in a small tavern just down the street . |
| 49 | I I I recorded it in a closed classroom during the lunch-time playtime |
| 50 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 51 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 52 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 53 | I never understood why until one morning I saw her in a corner sobbing . |
| 54 | And I saw him in a month , and he took the bandage off and me arm flopped of course . |
| 55 | I 'd like to get a Martin D45 ; I saw one in a catalogue for $100,000 , which is a bit more than I would care to pay ! ’ |
| 56 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 57 | ‘ I saw it in a magazine and blew the picture up on a colour photocopier . ’ |
| 58 | But , what does this new dance mean after scoring — I saw it in a number of games ? |
| 59 | I sta , I stained them in a hurry on er last Friday night so I , I I hope I have n't missed any . |
| 60 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |