Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 2 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 3 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 4 | At that point , both Tom and I accepted the magnitude of the problem . |
| 5 | Then , my curiosity and the challenge took over and I accepted the job . ’ |
| 6 | I said , ‘ It 's a th-th-th- ’ and I whipped the 3-iron out of the bag . |
| 7 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 8 | I did and I passed the exam ( which seemed very important at the time , although now I am not so sure ) . |
| 9 | Yes , it was nice to be warned , and I passed the rope round the animal 's body in front of the udder and pulled it tight In a slip knot . |
| 10 | To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama . |
| 11 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 12 | Of course I could n't see either of them , but I could hear them , and I imagined the rifleman peering into the ditch . |
| 13 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
| 14 | Instinctively , my hand came off the bat and I knocked the ball away . |
| 15 | He said that this would be unnecessary and I got the distinct impression that I should not ask any more questions about it but be content that I had got my letter back . |
| 16 | He was obviously very depressed about something , even disillusioned , and I got the impression that this something was the war . |
| 17 | We were standing very close , and I got the feeling that if I opened my arms she 'd come inside . |
| 18 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought he was superb , and I got the benefit . ’ |
| 21 | So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause . |
| 22 | And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’ |
| 23 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 24 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 25 | And I got the job of going up Then they sent me up knocking th knocking the wagons off . |
| 26 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 27 | . Er and I got the job at the Centre in August . |
| 28 | Eric , Paul and I got the goalposts together while Blyth hurriedly strapped his leg on . |
| 29 | ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it . |
| 30 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |