Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In some places there were nagging clouds of black flies , so that I climbed through the trees like a new Orestes , cursing and slapping .
2 It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace .
3 Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there .
4 Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up .
5 Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair .
6 I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always .
7 She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum
8 Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death .
9 I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order .
10 Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th .
11 The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water .
12 But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope .
13 It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down .
14 So when I went inside the station , I told him where I was .
15 So when I appeared on the scene and there were things about me which did n't stack up … well , it was a reasonable conclusion to arrive at .
16 But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there .
17 ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’
18 It was not that I objected to the public baths .
19 It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all .
20 Well anyway I was talking to er Rosette tonight cos I went to the office for some change and I , then I had this like .
21 And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn .
22 Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing .
23 Soon after I went to the department I introduced a policy of charging overseas patients for their medical care .
24 This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London .
25 An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School .
26 Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses .
27 I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce .
28 He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew
29 Just as I walked out the door , there was that there , and I said , Oh what 's this .
30 The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school .
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