Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 2 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 3 | During rehearsal I wore the same fawn woollen cardigan . |
| 4 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 5 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 6 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 7 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 8 | And the last couple of weeks I bought the cheaper ones . |
| 9 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 10 | Alton Towers in fact was a record turnover and profit and I think it justifies our marketing of goods I mentioned the two investments on new rides earlier and that was designed to move the audience from the white socks brigade to family unions , it seems to be working very well |
| 11 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 12 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 13 | There is an expression , ‘ the unassailable complacency of the mother of eight ’ , and with Wilson I had the unassailable confidence of someone five feet eight inches high in the presence of a man she knows instinctively to admire tall women . |
| 14 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 15 | A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different . |
| 16 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 17 | In Committee I promised the Hon. Member for Dundee East ( Mr. McAllion ) that I would follow up with the Scottish Development Agency the need for management-employee buy-out teams to receive the same treatment as any other applicant for assistance from the SDA . |
| 18 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 19 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 20 | I think the night I was taken from London I thought the whole world was crshing down around me . |
| 21 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 22 | In fact I thought the whole fairy-palace effect was a long way over the top and painfully unoriginal . |
| 23 | When we moved to Scotland I discovered the greatest delicacy of all — the smoked herring , or kipper . |
| 24 | ‘ From day one at Tottenham I had the opposite feeling , even when I was in the team . ’ |
| 25 | Ah yes I thought that would er take you by surprise I noticed the sharp intakes of breath there erm but even now we 're thinking in terms of expansion . |