Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 2 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 3 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 4 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 5 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 7 | But generally I saw more living conditions later on , er when er I started rent collecting for the council . |
| 8 | I did consider writing to the Foundation for sponsorship , but feel that the Company is more appropriate ) . |
| 9 | Finally she said , ‘ Yes , I did enjoy looking after the house at first , because I knew Peter appreciated it , and he did things for me . |
| 10 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 11 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 12 | I edged my way along clutching the banking , till a young man in a bright red T-shirt and a small boy with a grey sack , who I had seen skipping up the path earlier , forced me to adopt a more dignified , upright position . |
| 13 | Who was the tall man I had seen standing against the moon ? |
| 14 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 15 | Earlier that morning I had awoken lying on the grass underneath an oak tree in Regent 's Park . |
| 16 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 17 | Next , I had to run crying through the concrete concourses in dawn rain until my panic slowed and I recognized the city and myself in the matt and muffled streets . |
| 18 | It is hard to stay awake but I had to keep going to the loo ! |
| 19 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
| 20 | And I wanted to practise sculling with the big single sweep that could be worked from Joanna 's transom , the sculler standing up to work it . |