Example sentences of "[vb pp] and i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 2 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 3 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 4 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 5 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 6 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 7 | My scope increased and I cycled round the villages in search of paragraphs . |
| 8 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 9 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 10 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 11 | The argument ended and I went into the shop . |
| 12 | ‘ Fortunately the traffic cleared and I got to the studio to start my show with two minutes to go . ’ |
| 13 | The lights changed and I let in the clutch . |