Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS .
2 I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown .
3 I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track .
4 I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design .
5 I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns .
6 I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach .
7 With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court .
8 Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper .
9 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
10 Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door .
11 So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory .
12 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
13 I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’
14 I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . "
15 I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder .
16 The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes .
17 I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang .
18 I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company .
19 When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone
20 and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in .
21 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
22 At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond .
23 Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks .
24 The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out .
25 As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament .
26 Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door .
27 That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got
28 In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock .
29 I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers .
30 I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face .
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