Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 2 | So he started me on the on politics , and he was very good . |
| 3 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 4 | And I started on the Monday morning , Dad did the sandwiches , since he was head chef in the morning for the family , and off he sent me down the road , was n't too bad it was all down hill , early in the morning it was good for you , down hill . |
| 5 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 6 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
| 7 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |
| 8 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 9 | Then she looked me in the eye and smiled . |
| 10 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ One dog jumped up and bit off my ear then they pulled me to the ground . |
| 12 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 13 | He said yes Mrs well then he followed me in the kitchen , stood behind me and I thought what the hell 's he hanging about for , I 'm gon na take it to him and the , his son- in-law was there |
| 14 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 15 | Then he hit me with the butt of his gun and the next thing I remember is coming round to find my colleagues crouched anxiously beside me . |
| 16 | ‘ He was singing Ernie — then he chased me round the flat . |
| 17 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 18 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 19 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 20 | " I saw it in your eyes the other day when you warned me about the marchioness . |
| 21 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 22 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 23 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |