Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 2 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 3 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 4 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 7 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
| 8 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The same way I got us out of the alleyway when the grenade blew up . ’ |
| 12 | No , no I got it out , I got it out of the papers last night . |
| 13 | That 's one , another reason I got it out from the library . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
| 16 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 17 | ‘ Is that why you were spying on her when I caught you out in the hallway ? |
| 18 | ‘ I traced ye back tae the dairy — ye know , the place ye worked when ye were a boy . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I poked them back in the compost moved , and I retreated hurriedly . |
| 21 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 22 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 23 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 24 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 25 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 26 | I I turned it over in the end . |
| 27 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 28 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 29 | When he was n't looking I poured mine on to the floor . |
| 30 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |