Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 2 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 3 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 4 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 5 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 6 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 7 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 8 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 10 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 11 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 12 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 13 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 14 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 15 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 16 | I had sorted out the flat really nicely , and had some money put away . |
| 17 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 18 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 19 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 20 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 21 | Someone has plotted to kill you ! ’ and I explained what I had heard and how I had put out the fire . |