Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No , me got to sing
2 ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’
3 And at me let fly with a ringing broadside .
4 I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal .
5 I became involved when I attended a clinic , thinking I was going to assist with the tea-making !
6 As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie .
7 Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation .
8 As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd .
9 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
10 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
11 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
12 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
13 We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters .
14 To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business .
15 Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism .
16 I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me .
17 At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems .
18 ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game .
19 He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment .
20 But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 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 .
23 I became hooked on adventure stories by R.L. Stevenson , Ballantyne , Rider Haggard and many more .
24 Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while .
25 Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather .
26 I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken .
27 So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study .
28 Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms .
29 Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels .
30 It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books .
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