Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 2 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 3 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 4 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 5 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 6 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 7 | I just brought up the files . |
| 8 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 9 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 10 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 11 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 12 | ‘ I yesterday got out the Box from the Marianne . |
| 13 | I also took on the position knowingly of the bad reputation in Scotland of Sports to the trade regarding hotel sales of your equipment , but was promised that this practice would be cut out . |
| 14 | I also switched on the echo-sounder and adjusted it to ‘ bleep ’ if we passed over any fish — such are the benefits of modern technology ! |
| 15 | I also pointed out the difficulty of bringing a peer down from the Upper House-not only the short-term difficulty of the delay but also the psychological impact on the country . |
| 16 | I apprehensively switched on the teletext … still 2–0 . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you must have had an accident — I even checked out the hospitals this morning . ’ |
| 18 | I even wrote down the name of a bar and a good clean hotel that he recommended . |
| 19 | I proudly took down the details in my pristine notebook and could n't wait to read the proof as soon as my painstaking , if short , report was set . |
| 20 | She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her . |
| 21 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 23 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 24 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |