Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea stuck in my mind and I contacted the local NGS organiser , who suggested we open the following year . |
| 2 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 3 | To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama . |
| 4 | Heather and I had the large front room on the right of the entrance , which we understood had been a music room , and where Byron , in a temper had thrown an ink bottle at a maid . |
| 5 | It was the number one awkward question but I discerned the faintest gleam of hope ; he had spoken in the unmistakable harsh , glottal accent of my home town . |
| 6 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 7 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 8 | I used my Telecasters a bit and I used the 330 just for feedback , because the whammy bar is excellent for controlling that . |
| 9 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 10 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 11 | A cold draught of air was coming from the kitchen and I found the back door to be wide open — and then my horrified glance fell upon Aunt Louise . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the early hours and I feared the worst , that a family member or friend had been hurt . |
| 13 | I had the go-ahead last week-end and I interviewed the fourth applicant this morning . |
| 14 | I was sitting in the sitting-room about to make a cup of coffee when I heard a huge bang and I thought the whole house was going to cave in . |
| 15 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 16 | We proceeded without lights and I did the whole thing by radar with my eyes standing out like organ stops . |
| 17 | It was already nearly dusk and I supposed the Dutch people whom I saw on the pavements and on bicycles were hurrying to get home before the curfew . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ We had our Christmas Day on Boxing Day and I had the best ever Christmas with my children and grandchildren . ’ |
| 19 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 20 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 21 | MY wife and I joined the National Trust at Cragside in Northumberland and over the last few years have cut a pretty wide swathe through Trust properties in Northumbria , North Yorkshire , Kent , the Lake District and East Anglia . |
| 22 | Stephen Conroy and I had the same tutor , Geoff Squires , and maybe he 's a model for our life drawing . |
| 23 | had last week and I threw the other little bit out . |
| 24 | The colonel and I parted the best of friends . |
| 25 | My brother Brian and I watched the Shoan armies as they went north to give battle to Negus Mikael and his Wollo hordes . |
| 26 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 27 | Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting , with its limited steps . |
| 28 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 29 | Mr Heathcliff and I entered the huge main room . |
| 30 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |