Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I asked again about the truck .
2 ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ?
3 Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef .
4 He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
5 I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly .
6 I shied away from the prospect .
7 He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray .
8 I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses .
9 I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing .
10 Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing .
11 Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes .
12 I lived only for the day when I would come into my own .
13 You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate .
14 While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at .
15 I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch !
16 Not that I cared much for the way he kept them .
17 For a while I got deep into The Coasters and The Platters and all this old doo-wop stuff , and that somehow led to writing a song for Tin Machine 's second album .
18 ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place .
19 So I got straight into the car and headed south , hoping I could reach Carlisle before the train did .
20 The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time .
21 ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ?
22 Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end .
23 In early June , I got close to the top , and to the cirque , before having to stop the car at a snow-drift ; but if that happens you can simply enough walk the rest of the way or , indeed , walk directly into the cirque along the valley to the left out of He as .
24 I got quickly to the parapet .
25 I hopped rapidly into the yard and crashed the door behind me .
26 Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice .
27 I moved away from the beam , right ?
28 I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did .
29 I moved here after the Expo last year . ’
30 As I moved closer to the edge of the site , I felt a sense of optimism welling up inside me .
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