Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | and I got the midi hi-fi system . |
| 7 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 8 | Old friends from the village were talking quietly among themselves , and I noticed the awful Pumblechook trying to catch my eye , as he drank brandy and swallowed large pieces of cake . |
| 9 | There was a loud burst of laughter behind me and I heard the Belgian clergyman exclaim : ‘ That is really heretical ! positively heretical ! ’ then laugh loudly himself . |
| 10 | And the heart-beat grew louder and louder and closer to my ear , and I heard the deep booming sound of the sea at its very deepest depths , where monsters live in total darkness and corpses of drowned sailors lie in coral dust . |
| 11 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 12 | But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’ |
| 13 | The rest of the squad fell to one knee , and I heard the smart click of rifle bolts … |
| 14 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 15 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 16 | The idea stuck in my mind and I contacted the local NGS organiser , who suggested we open the following year . |
| 17 | SIR , — In 1988 , colleagues and I formed the Forensic Academic Group in the North ( FAGIN ) . |
| 18 | After drinks on the balcony overlooking some of the grass courts where members were playing , we had a delicious luncheon , and I had the great pleasure of sitting next to my charming French host Alain Boucheron . |
| 19 | I certainly did , and I had the magenta bum-bag to prove it . |
| 20 | money out there and I had the hundred quid that |
| 21 | And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't have liked to have known more about him , even though Hattie Jacques and I had the deepest philosophical discussions with him . ’ |
| 23 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 24 | there 's a wee bairn been in the , in the , in the , my daughter was staying in , and I had the other two . |
| 25 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ We had our Christmas Day on Boxing Day and I had the best ever Christmas with my children and grandchildren . ’ |
| 27 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 28 | Aunt Margaret and I had the aforementioned ‘ smokin chicken ’ £5.95 which turned out to be a huge half-bird smothered in a nasty synthetic tasting sauce , which I scraped off and replaced with the ketchup on the table . |
| 29 | At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks . |
| 30 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |