Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 32 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 33 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 34 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 35 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 36 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 37 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 38 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 39 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 40 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 41 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
| 42 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 43 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 44 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 45 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 46 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 47 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 48 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 49 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 50 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 51 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 52 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 53 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
| 54 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 55 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 56 | I send you into the parallel continuum with orders to collect the final statue and do nothing more . |
| 57 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 58 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 59 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 60 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |