Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 3 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 5 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 6 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 7 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 8 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 9 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 10 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 13 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 16 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 17 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 20 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 21 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 27 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 28 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |