Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 2 | I planned to stay there for the summer , and then learn how to be a better actress . |
| 3 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |
| 4 | I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room , and washed when I could . |
| 5 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 6 | I HAVE to admit that up to now , I 'd heard more about The Cranberries than of them . |
| 7 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 8 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 9 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 10 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 11 | The Felder started immediately , and I watched the revs climbing on the rev-counter until I began to roll forward into the open . |
| 12 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 13 | I was very kindly invited back to the marquee for tea , but as it was by then after 4.30pm , I decided to go straight to the car , take off my dripping mackintosh , and drive back to London , after a very happy day which raised £25,000 for the Prince 's Trust . |
| 14 | I decided to go alone on the Sunday morning . |
| 15 | Next day , to avoid the corrugations , I decided to walk parallel to the track but there were stones everywhere the size of golf balls . |
| 16 | After trying every aquatic shop in the area , I decided to write directly to the manager of Trilcot and within a week I was able to collect an excellent piece of wood which they sent to a nearby store . |
| 17 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
| 18 | ‘ When I started riding again at the IRTA tests in late February I had not ridden a 500 for five months and that 's too long to be away from a 500 . |
| 19 | I started reading more about the 19th century Swinbrook … about the great wood of Wychwood . |
| 20 | I started to walk across to the pile and as I did , all my toys came to life and stood in a line facing me . |
| 21 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 22 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 23 | After a terrible 15 minutes I managed to talk again to the same doctor and she explained that elevated meant they were not nought , not as I had thought , that they were going up . |
| 24 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 25 | So I went to walk alone in the Alps . |
| 26 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 27 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 28 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 29 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 30 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |