Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 3 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 4 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 10 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train . |
| 19 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 20 | So , at half-past eleven that night , Sapt and I rode out to the house in New Avenue . |
| 21 | I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously , counting the strokes . |
| 22 | And , with that , I stalked out into the corridor , as pansy , still dazed from the effects of the explosion , meandered feebly after my mother , muttering about notes and the headmaster 's policy on being excused important school activities . |
| 23 | I stalked out of the hall , quite pleased with myself , and went back to my own chamber . |
| 24 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 26 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 27 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 28 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 29 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 30 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |