Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 2 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 3 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 4 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 5 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 6 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 7 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 10 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 11 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 12 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 13 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 14 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 15 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 16 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 18 | Go and collect my prizes What did I do with the bloody tickets now ? |
| 19 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 20 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 21 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 22 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 23 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 24 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |
| 25 | I nursed my damaged finger , and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff . |
| 26 | The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan . |