Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 2 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 3 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 4 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 5 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 6 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 7 | There I became horribly fascinated by the place , the ‘ sick child ’ of Germany , with its decay , its division , its degradation . |
| 8 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 9 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
| 10 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 11 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 12 | The technical and objective manner lasted for about nine pages , then the eyes watered up again , the voice started strangulating , dirty great blobs welled up over my vision and I got seriously worried about my ability to perform this piece in a grown-up manner . |
| 13 | I got really excited about it and the process of working with him was really inspiring . |
| 14 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 15 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 16 | I suppose I got more bullied into it through me family really , to get off it , so I never really had the push to come off it . |
| 17 | Mind you , I still see many of the images I created then reproduced in other countries . |
| 18 | How much I used really depended on what time of the month it was , on when I got paid , like . |
| 19 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 20 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 21 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 22 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 23 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 24 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 25 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 26 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
| 28 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 29 | I did n't think that was bad , considering I 'd just thought of it . |
| 30 | As a student , with everybody into punk in a big way , I 'd regularly paid over the odds for Chuck Mangione imports . |