Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 6 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 7 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 8 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 9 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 10 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 11 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 17 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 18 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
| 19 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 20 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
| 21 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 22 | I mean even with the market being depressed there 's still gon na be eight hundred pounds in there . |
| 23 | Yes but surely they thought that through before they got to the stage that I mean even with the mortgage |
| 24 | I mean conceivably on the tail end of policy H one yesterday , the new settlement is n't going to accommodate all the development needs of Greater York . |
| 25 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
| 26 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 27 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
| 28 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 29 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 30 | I remain continually on the look-out for unusual behaviour from inanimate objects . |