Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 2 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 3 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 4 | I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’ |
| 5 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 6 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 7 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 8 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 9 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 10 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 11 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 12 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 13 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 14 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 15 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 16 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 17 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 18 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 19 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 20 | In consequence , I was particularly disappointed you were not able to accept the invitation I 'd extended via the boys last year . |
| 21 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 22 | I 'd stayed with the Puseys several times , and knew my way about the flat . |
| 23 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 24 | I 'd stuck to the rules arid nothing had happened . |
| 25 | Some subjects , I 'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde , were better left only as implications . |
| 26 | I turned to look through the windows . |
| 27 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 28 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 29 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 30 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |