Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
2 I asked again about the truck .
3 ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ?
4 As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights .
5 As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights .
6 I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
7 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
8 I gazed up at the building .
9 Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef .
10 He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
11 I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings .
12 As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight .
13 I gazed down at the reclining form .
14 Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure .
15 From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst .
16 I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly .
17 I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment .
18 I shied away from the prospect .
19 He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray .
20 When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
21 I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses .
22 I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing .
23 I refer with er councillor to the remarks I made earlier about the tr the post of the trade union , I do n't propose to say any more on that .
24 I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue .
25 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
26 I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage .
27 Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing .
28 In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken .
29 I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man .
30 As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café .
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