Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 62 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 63 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 64 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 65 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 66 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 67 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 68 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 69 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 70 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 71 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 72 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 73 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 74 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 75 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 76 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 77 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 78 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 79 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 80 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 81 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 82 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 83 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 84 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 85 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 86 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 87 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 88 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 89 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
| 90 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |