Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 2 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 3 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 4 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 5 | ‘ I rode her in a bit of work on Saturday morning and she felt great . |
| 6 | Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start . |
| 7 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 8 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 9 | I got it in a pack outside Fads |
| 10 | I think I got it in a shop on the where did I get it ? |
| 11 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 12 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 13 | I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river . |
| 14 | I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars , hotels and souvenir shops . |
| 15 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 16 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 17 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 18 | I found myself in a rough cubicle with a torn curtain hanging to approximately knee-height . |
| 19 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 20 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 21 | I found myself in a large room , where the curtains were closed to allow no daylight in , and the candles were lit . |
| 22 | Suddenly I found myself in a sack much larger than my body , but completely dark . |
| 23 | So it was that eventually I found myself in a hospital in Swindon close to other victims of Larry Foot . |
| 24 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Strangely , and almost coinciding with this modification to weight reduction , I found myself in a lack-of-petrol situation . |
| 27 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 28 | Last month , I found myself in an unknown place . |
| 29 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 30 | I found myself in an increasing dilemma at that school . |