Example sentences of "i walked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopeless , I walked towards the nearest town , which was further away than I cared to think about . |
| 2 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
| 3 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 4 | As I walked down the front steps for the last time , a feeling of elation swept over me . |
| 5 | So I walked down the steep corridor to the huts that looked outwardly like the huts of both my TV hospital and the real one forty years ago . |
| 6 | I walked through the outer office where five or six guys were crouched over stacks of official-looking paper . |
| 7 | It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . |
| 8 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 9 | I walked through the big , wide classroom door , and into the hall which always reminded me of the giant 's room in ‘ Jack and the Beanstalk ’ . |
| 10 | One afternoon , as I walked under the tall arches of the Palazzo della Pilotta , the immense , pale-pink building constructed in the time of the Farnese with millions of thin bricks , a fat middle-aged man exposed himself to me . |
| 11 | I walked to the nearest telephone box and asked the operator if she could put me through to the refuge — I did n't have a single penny . |
| 12 | Each day I walked to the new village where the old village |
| 13 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 14 | As I walked to the fair I noticed a polystyrene cup , a discarded baby 's dummy and a chicken leg ; hardly a balanced diet for a fox . |
| 15 | So I walked to the last bench what seated three pupils , I said , there it is look it 's stuck about three inch . |
| 16 | It was a large field and I could see the barn at the far end as I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees . |
| 17 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 18 | But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before . |
| 19 | Shortly after I joined the Crofters Commission , the Chief Technical Officer and I walked across the old shieling ground , in the heart of a large general common pasture , in another of the islands . |
| 20 | I had to have those three tees when I walked off the 18th . |
| 21 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 22 | I walked along the oak-railed gallery , looking both down and up at the magnificent chimney . |
| 23 | It was a cold , wet , typically late autumnal afternoon as I walked along the old trackbed , avoiding the many puddles of murky rainwater on my way . |
| 24 | There was still a Mediterranean atmosphere , as I could see as I walked beneath the Spanish arch along the cobbled quayside towards the harbour . |
| 25 | But I walked round the barbed wire and crawled inside the little ground that lay beyond . |
| 26 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 27 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |
| 28 | I walked in the front door of the Department and the receptionist said ‘ Good morning , Mr Illingsworth , ’ which she never normally did . |
| 29 | She and I walked in the ancient garden , talking quietly about our childhood meetings . |
| 30 | I walked in the deserted public gardens with the woman who acted the Queen in the show . |