Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And then I chucked it out the window . |
2 | I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge . |
3 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
4 | And I got one out the fridge . |
5 | Yeah , well when I got it out the car but , just wash that down |
6 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
7 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
8 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
9 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
10 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
11 | It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole . |
12 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
13 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |
14 | ‘ I saw him down the bus station this morning . |
15 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
16 | I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds . |
17 | I put him off the idea of going shopping with me . |
18 | ‘ I kicked him up the backside , ’ smiles Gray at the memory of their clash on a London soccer pitch when they were both 13-year-old ragamuffins . |
19 | He dropped it and I kicked it down the alley . |
20 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
21 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |