Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 3 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 4 | First of all I think at the end of the day that we all know a democracy never comes cheap , it 's erm , there are cheaper alternatives for administering decisions , but erm , but dictatorship does n't go well and therefore democracy will never come cheap . |
| 5 | For six months until the end of 1982 I travelled in the Midlands , the North-East , South Yorkshire and Lancashire , staying in working-class homes in Coventry , Sunderland , Barnsley and Wigan . |
| 6 | On my visit to New York in August of 1939 I stayed at the St Regis Hotel ( having learned it was pro-British and that the Duke of Edinburgh made it his home on Manhattan visits ) . |
| 7 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 8 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 9 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 10 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 11 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 12 | In 1976 I went to the States to promote ‘ Devil Woman ’ and some journalist said to me , ‘ If you 'd like to meet Elvis , I can arrange it . ’ |
| 13 | We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it . |
| 14 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 15 | ‘ When it comes to 12.45 I go behind the Ben Hur scenery and have a sandwich . |
| 16 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 17 | At twenty to seven I breeze into the pub feeling spruced up and sharp as a Porsche purring from a 12000-mile service . |
| 18 | I went through a bunch of necks and felt them , and after feeling about twenty I said to the guy , ‘ This is the one . |
| 19 | Well fo a at sixteen I went into the department that built the machines and er I was , I think it was bell was going for lunchtime and a lad come by says hello Taffy how you going on in here ? |
| 20 | At first I stayed with the others . |
| 21 | At last I calmed in the face of the sheer horror of the tragedy . |
| 22 | He stopped , and Nuadu waited , ‘ At last I bargained with the Soul Eaters , ’ said the Robemaker softly . |
| 23 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 24 | When at last I broke through the lip and parachuted into the void beyond I turned my head and looked behind . |
| 25 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 26 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |