Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 2 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 3 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 4 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 5 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 6 | I wandered alone across the muttering stream and satisfied myself that the spongy land was still lined with alders . |
| 7 | I wandered aimlessly around the National Gallery just for something to do and then went home . |
| 8 | I was certain I would catch something in Rock Pool , and my hopes mounted as I waded silently to the perfect casting position . |
| 9 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 10 | I identified closely with the other girls at school making strong relationships which , although they were not sexual , were emotionally very intense . |
| 11 | ‘ I paddled away from the sinking helicopter and attempted to pull the zipper up . |
| 12 | ‘ He veered to the right , I veered strongly to the left and we had many a set to . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And why on earth should you automatically assume that I came here with the express purpose of blackmail ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 15 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 16 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 17 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 18 | I turned politely to the young man . |
| 19 | I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello . |
| 20 | In the morning , as I walked again among the modest , secluded women in the town bazaars , the vision of the night seemed like a dream . |
| 21 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 22 | As expected , I found Prince Charles very easy to talk with and we had quite an informal chat , mostly about boats of course , before I stepped backwards along the red carpet with my medal pinned on . |
| 23 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 24 | And I heard enough about the grisly ways in which he like to make sure his questions were answered . |
| 25 | As I stumbled forward over the black earth , between borders of sooty rhododendrons and tired grass , I just could n't believe it . |
| 26 | I settled happily before the blazing fire , musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends . |
| 27 | It was terribly important that I should beat him , and I struggled desperately against the invisible forces that always prevent one running in dreams . |
| 28 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 29 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 30 | I looked again at the little cat . |