Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 2 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 3 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 4 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 5 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 6 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 7 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 8 | Then , slowly , she fell forward and I laid her gently on the ground . |
| 9 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
| 10 | I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work . |
| 11 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 12 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 13 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 14 | I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month . |
| 15 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
| 16 | ‘ The same way I got us out of the alleyway when the grenade blew up . ’ |
| 17 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 18 | No , no I got it out , I got it out of the papers last night . |
| 19 | That 's one , another reason I got it out from the library . |
| 20 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 21 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
| 22 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 23 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 24 | I found him here on the floor with his neck broken . |
| 25 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 26 | ‘ Is that why you were spying on her when I caught you out in the hallway ? |
| 27 | ‘ I traced ye back tae the dairy — ye know , the place ye worked when ye were a boy . ’ |
| 28 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 29 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
| 30 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |