Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 2 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 3 | I tried to explain then the basis on which we maintain contacts with the Palestinians . |
| 4 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 5 | While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 7 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 8 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 9 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 10 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 11 | But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 17 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 18 | I began to see how the literature I revered , the literature I loathed , behaved in its encounter with racial ideology . |
| 19 | To the right is one of several photocopies of the bride , complete in outline , on which I worked to sort out the background composition in more detail , especially the position of the patterned arch on the carpet backdrop , which corresponds with the curve of the headcloth material embroidery at the bottom left . |
| 20 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 21 | Halfway through the afternoon I went to see how the lakeside revetment was going . |
| 22 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 23 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 24 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 29 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 30 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |