Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 2 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 3 | After treatment I removed the copper and treated with Myxazin , but I still lost the fish about three months after it first stopped feeding . |
| 4 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 5 | During rehearsal I wore the same fawn woollen cardigan . |
| 6 | People talk about how much of a shock , a wonderful shock , it is the first time you realise that there are places like ours that you can go , but for Boy I had the feeling that coming to The Bar did n't feel like that much of a change in his routine . |
| 7 | ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted . |
| 8 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 9 | Of course I got the ferry to Appin and a lift to the very pier south of the narrows of Loch Leven where JTR landed . |
| 10 | So er er after a bit you see he changed them round , he , he guessed somebody were and of course I got the job |
| 11 | Of course I enjoyed the company at school because my childhood was a bit lonely . |
| 12 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 13 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 14 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 15 | On the last day of term I met the President and dons to say goodbye . |
| 16 | That is why when Ian Greig became captain of Surrey I knew the county would flourish . |
| 17 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 18 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 19 | I slung my rifle over my shoulder and clutching the bottle of wine I crossed the bridge for the second time , heading east , turning to wave to the couple at the door of the café . |
| 20 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 21 | Parish Council Conference , so , which some people attended , on the eighth of November I received the minutes yesterday , erm , I do n't know if anybody 's interested , are you John ? |
| 22 | And the last couple of weeks I bought the cheaper ones . |
| 23 | As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 . |
| 24 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 25 | Alton Towers in fact was a record turnover and profit and I think it justifies our marketing of goods I mentioned the two investments on new rides earlier and that was designed to move the audience from the white socks brigade to family unions , it seems to be working very well |
| 26 | Members of all-male groups maintain a regular monitoring of harems through a system of challenges I called the ‘ yelping chase ’ . |
| 27 | After a couple of moves I gained the crest of this and draped a big sling over its tip before setting off on a journey of discovery down the other side of the offending obstacle . |
| 28 | Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs . |
| 29 | When he was out of sight I pushed the curtains aside and ran downstairs . |
| 30 | With a feeling of fatalism I grasped the teat again . |