Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 2 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 4 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 5 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 6 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 7 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 8 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 9 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 10 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 11 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 12 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 17 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 18 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 19 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 20 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 21 | In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken . |
| 22 | I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase . |
| 23 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 24 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 25 | A few minutes later , when Nelly was preoccupied , I 'm sorry to say my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room , down the stairs and ran off home . |
| 26 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 27 | Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village . |
| 28 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 29 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 30 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |