Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 2 | Just in time , for the bed where I placed the case is flashing its warning negative/ positive , and I snatch the stitched handle , just in time , as it fades out . |
| 3 | Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal . |
| 4 | All right , I knew the cockroach treatment was for the time when I made my centipede on a string crawl up Shirnette 's back . |
| 5 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 6 | Years later during the war when I went to Central Flying School to get an instructors rating , he once more instructed me and this time got another gong — Air Force Cross — for conduct far and beyond the call of duty , trying a second time to teach me to fly ( or so my mentors claim ) . |
| 7 | I did recall you were from Danu , so when I first read about the troubles there I became somewhat anxious on your behalf . |
| 8 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 9 | I decided I 'd have to tell you how I felt after the wedding when I thought you might be feeling more moved to accept advances from a Bluebeard . |
| 10 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 11 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 12 | And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just ! |
| 13 | We 're two thirds of the way along I thought , Sheila , I said , I 'm heading for the wrong bridge . |
| 14 | The perspective of the dream must have shifted several times , for I saw her once as if from above , moving through a kind of square , or crossing place , and then again from the fixed point of the dream where I stood watching her , left forefront . |
| 15 | I had to run to the end of the course with a hoop on my head then put the ring on a pole , then on the way back I had to arrange the bean bags in the right colour hoops , then get in an old potato bag and jump to the middle of the course then I had to skip to the end . |
| 16 | One of the reasons why I pressed the Minister to give an assurance about the link between Stratford and King 's Cross is that it is feared that money will not be available to build the link . |
| 17 | In the past I used to have a , a class on psycho- history , and I dropped it , and one of the reasons why I dropped it was , the lit a lot of the literary was very poor quality , for a start , and erm , people , er , students , er got that too , and I could n't really blame them . |
| 18 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 19 | That 's one of the reasons why I decided to get involved in the project in the first place when it was first broached to me . |
| 20 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 21 | There was only one on duty today and I waited till he turned and moved to the back of the room then I walked quietly past him and out into the square . |
| 22 | The holes got bigger on top of the hill so I rang them again saying they 're dangerous for cyclist for a motorbike could have an accident . |
| 23 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps originally it had been the cellar of a Merchant 's House , for it had walls varying between three and four feet in thickness , whereas the walls of the house where I spent my boyhood were only one brick or nine inches thick . |
| 25 | He had an old brew house there and on the side of the sink there I built a good staunch bench about like that square , put a vice on it you know . |
| 26 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 27 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 28 | Now I imagine yo you come from all different parts of the county so I 'd better tell you where they are . |
| 29 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 30 | They had left behind the Silberner Hirsch and were moving towards the place where I lay . |