Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked through the big , wide classroom door , and into the hall which always reminded me of the giant 's room in ‘ Jack and the Beanstalk ’ . |
| 2 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 3 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 4 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 5 | This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums . |
| 6 | You really left me in the shit … ’ |
| 7 | You really left me in the shit . ’ |
| 8 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 9 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 10 | You then followed me to the ticket reservation counter , chatted up the girl afterwards , found I 'd booked a Business-Class seat to Brussels , did the same yourself and waited outside the final departure lounge until you saw me boarding . ’ |
| 11 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 12 | You never even , you never told me about the one |
| 13 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 14 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 15 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |
| 16 | ‘ They nearly pulled me through the bars , ’ he said . |
| 17 | They probably imagined me as the gentleman flasher in the park ! ’ |
| 18 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 19 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 20 | I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead . |
| 21 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 22 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 23 | But I ran for them and won most everything , so it was good fun , and it also kept me off the streets , which pleased my parents . |
| 24 | It also reminded me of the importance of Popper 's definition of scientific statements as those that are , in principle , not confirmable , but refutable ( see Popper , 1963 , Chapter 1 ) . |
| 25 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 26 | He also showed me round the House of Commons . |
| 27 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 28 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 29 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 30 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |