Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 2 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 3 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 4 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 5 | I found her lying among the Foinmen . " |
| 6 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 7 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 8 | I noticed her hanging around the bar , staring through its window , while I ate my fish and potatoes . |
| 9 | I heard them whispering to the other sailors several times , but I did not suspect what they were planning . |
| 10 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 11 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 12 | ‘ I heard them scavenging along the road somewhere in the mist . |
| 13 | You see , to let you understand , this was maybe about four or five years after nationalization and prior to nationalization of course , was under the L M S , Street Station and were under the L M S and was under the L N E R. But when I arrived at , I heard them talking about the Callie see , the Callie railway . |
| 14 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 15 | His door opened and closed , quietly , but not secretively , and I heard him going down the stairs . |
| 16 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 17 | And I stood there , leaning against the wall with my eyes closed while I heard her trudging down the stairs and fiddling with the doorknob . |
| 18 | Again as if she read my thoughts , she said : " After I heard you talking on the phone , I nipped out and bought this — you can pay me back , if you like , Mother 's ruin . |
| 19 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 20 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
| 21 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 22 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 23 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 24 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 25 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 26 | I 'd popped into the library to get a book renewed and when I left the college building I saw her walking along the road on her own . ’ |
| 27 | I saw her walking through the harbour and I followed . |
| 28 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 29 | I saw her flitting through the island trees in her Ascot gloves , for ever searching for Kew . |
| 30 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |