Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall . |
| 2 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 3 | Eventually I reached the cliff top . |
| 4 | Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it . |
| 5 | Eventually I struck the compromise . |
| 6 | Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues . |
| 7 | Eventually I walked the night away , twice hiding in the ditch of the old Glencoe road as lagerlout cars — I could hear their maleficent approach down the glen — tyre-screeched past . |
| 8 | I 'm totally left-handed , but eventually I learned the bottleneck style used by blues singers . |
| 9 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 11 | From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular . |
| 12 | Would you rather I left the room ? ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 14 | Suddenly I sensed the ground disappear and for seconds we were airborne . |
| 15 | Suddenly I felt the change of temperature . |
| 16 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 17 | And however much I hated the idea , sooner or later I would have to tell somebody about it — Toby , perhaps either the truth or a lie I would have to tell , because I could n't any longer pretend it was nobody 's business but mine . |
| 18 | I had to come , however much I hated the idea . |
| 19 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 20 | Gently I lifted the ledger and placed it , still open , on the table . |
| 21 | I should try it myself if only I had the time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My body was that of a man but deep down I had the heart of a woman . |
| 23 | As soon as I saw you go down I gave the order to fire , ’ Moran said . |
| 24 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps I spurned the woman somehow . |
| 26 | I turned straightaway to No. 13 of Kinderszenen ( ‘ The poet speaks ’ ) to see if perhaps I missed the point . |
| 27 | I know it 's daft , she said should 've gone Christmas week and I said I 'm not going down Christmas week so I went the week before . |
| 28 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 29 | right , so I had the insurance man come up , come about my pension , he sat where you are and I sat there , he was a well to do man |
| 30 | So I had the problem of trying to protect the family interests when their own chief executive was a real punter . ’ |