Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 2 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 3 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 4 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 5 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 6 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 7 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 8 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 9 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 10 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 11 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 12 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 13 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 14 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 16 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 17 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 18 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 19 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 20 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 21 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 22 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 23 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 24 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
| 25 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 26 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 27 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 28 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 29 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 30 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |