Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 32 | I hawked it around the great Guardian brains , chaps with double firsts from Oxbridge , and none could help . |
| 33 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 34 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 35 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 36 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 37 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 38 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 39 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 40 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 41 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 42 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 43 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 44 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 45 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 46 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 47 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 48 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 49 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 50 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 53 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 54 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 55 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 56 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 57 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 58 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 59 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 60 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |