Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 32 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 33 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 34 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 35 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 36 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 37 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 38 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 39 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 40 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 41 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 42 | I got one with a big chunky battery , it should 've lasted about six month to a year |
| 43 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 44 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 45 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 46 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 47 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 48 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 49 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 50 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 51 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 52 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 53 | Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed . |
| 54 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 55 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 56 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 57 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 58 | Strangely , and almost coinciding with this modification to weight reduction , I found myself in a lack-of-petrol situation . |
| 59 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 60 | I found myself in a rough cubicle with a torn curtain hanging to approximately knee-height . |