Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
2 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
3 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
4 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
5 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
6 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
7 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
8 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
9 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
10 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
11 | So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory . |
12 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
13 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
14 | I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . " |
15 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
16 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
17 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
18 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
19 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
20 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
21 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
22 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
23 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
24 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
25 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
26 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
27 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
28 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
29 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
30 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |