Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 32 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 33 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 34 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 35 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 36 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 37 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 38 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 39 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
| 40 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 41 | Then I began to walk along the old coach road . |
| 42 | I enjoyed working with the outside tradesmen . |
| 43 | Putting that aside , I enjoyed playing with the various contraptions which was both fun and time filling ( during boring lunch hours ! ) |
| 44 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
| 45 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 46 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 47 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 48 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 49 | After beginning to interview people in depth , I realised that , to explain this juxtaposition of apparently contradictory values within individuals , I needed to go beyond the conceptual framework set by clinicians and sociologists alike . |
| 50 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 51 | FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge |
| 52 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 53 | When I was ready , I started walking into the shallow water away from Blefuscu . |
| 54 | With the success of the muscarinic experiment , I felt committed to the passive avoidance model , to the exclusion of almost everything else . |
| 55 | I felt torn between the two — one moment I 'd be scolding them , and the next I 'd be scolding her . |
| 56 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 57 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 58 | I shall write a long poem about what I saw shining from the other side . ’ |
| 59 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 60 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |