Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 2 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 3 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 4 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 5 | ‘ I walked down the aisle in a cream Wallis suit … |
| 6 | I go to my nephew 's for tea on Saturday afternoons and if the weather 's not too bad I get off the bus in Glenfair Road and walk down the Drive . |
| 7 | ‘ I bound up the wheat in little bunches . |
| 8 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
| 9 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
| 10 | I crushed up the cockroach in my clothes and practically ripped my blouse off , there in open sunlight . |
| 11 | The clock struck one and I went down the lunch in Hall . |
| 12 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 13 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |
| 14 | Unable to say anything , I held out the book in my shaking hand , holding it only with the tips of my fingers . |
| 15 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |