Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 2 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 3 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 4 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 5 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 6 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 7 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 8 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 9 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 10 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 11 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 12 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 13 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 14 | So I put it up and I gave to like that , I went put them in the water ! |
| 15 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 16 | I did have one in the drawer though , I do n't know if it 's still there |
| 17 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 18 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 19 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 20 | I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship . |
| 21 | I had to put one in the microwave |
| 22 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 23 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 24 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 25 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 26 | ‘ I had to keep you in the dark . |
| 27 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 28 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
| 29 | I knew that the throat mike would take the strain , I intended to wear it in the front of my hair , as originated by the cast of Les Miserables , not as Joyce wore hers — at the throat — as TV presenters wear them , on the lapel — which in any case was something I did not have . |
| 30 | Besides , I wanted to put you in the picture . |