Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 2 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 3 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 4 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 5 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 6 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 7 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 8 | I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away . |
| 9 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 10 | I just brought up the files . |
| 11 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 12 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 13 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 14 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 15 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 16 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 17 | ‘ I yesterday got out the Box from the Marianne . |
| 18 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 19 | I quickly trod out the flickering twists of paper , and scrambled across to the door . |
| 20 | I also took on the position knowingly of the bad reputation in Scotland of Sports to the trade regarding hotel sales of your equipment , but was promised that this practice would be cut out . |
| 21 | I also switched on the echo-sounder and adjusted it to ‘ bleep ’ if we passed over any fish — such are the benefits of modern technology ! |
| 22 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 23 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 24 | I also pointed out the difficulty of bringing a peer down from the Upper House-not only the short-term difficulty of the delay but also the psychological impact on the country . |
| 25 | I apprehensively switched on the teletext … still 2–0 . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you must have had an accident — I even checked out the hospitals this morning . ’ |
| 27 | I even wrote down the name of a bar and a good clean hotel that he recommended . |
| 28 | I proudly took down the details in my pristine notebook and could n't wait to read the proof as soon as my painstaking , if short , report was set . |
| 29 | She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her . |
| 30 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |