Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 Why did you let me read about it in the papers ?
2 I read about it in the paper today
3 You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . "
4 I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination .
5 When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed .
6 I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long .
7 I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it .
8 I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it .
9 I worked with him in the theatre , through the good times and the bad times .
10 I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night .
11 He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’
12 When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them .
13 When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him .
14 I looked at myself in the mirror .
15 I looked at myself in the rearview mirror .
16 I looked at myself in the mirror .
17 I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room .
18 I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring
19 Well where 's the one I took of you in the tree ?
20 I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures .
21 Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian :
22 Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’
23 I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room .
24 I sat beside her in the coach and held her hand all the way .
25 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
26 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
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