Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 3 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 4 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 5 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 6 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 7 | The very next day I started ferreting around in the woods and came upon the most magnificent fortress of a sett . |
| 8 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 9 | We were well stuck into an excellent local red type of mouthwash , Donnaz , when Ino insisted on our sampling a white Pinot Noir from one of the localities I remembered crawling through in the train . |
| 10 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 11 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 12 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 13 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 14 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 15 | I will concentrate upon two of the more difficult threads in the pattern I attempted to draw out in the last chapter , and will try to develop them further in a more philosophically coherent way . |
| 16 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 17 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |