Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 2 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 3 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 4 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
| 5 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 6 | The ingredients were gathered together for me by Lord Wittisham , the kidneys themselves prepared by Mr Pegg , and I attended to the final cooking and preparation of the sauce . ’ |
| 7 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 8 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 9 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She and I walked in the ancient garden , talking quietly about our childhood meetings . |
| 13 | Melinda and I lay on the hot bank , watching the swallows dive . |
| 14 | And I said to the old man I says , er well that 's it now . |
| 15 | We had yesterday off , so James and I went to the Modern Art Gallery , then to the Cameo to see Indochine , which was really brilliant . |
| 16 | Why did all the grown-ups giggle so much when Richard ( the younger of the two boys ) and I went to the fancy dress party as Adam and Eve ? |
| 17 | I was lucky because we heard that the Government was encouraging women 's employment , so my husband and I went to the Prime Minister 's residence with an application . |
| 18 | That evening , instead of having dinner at the house , Fritz and I went to the little hotel in the town of Zenda where I had stayed before . |
| 19 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 20 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 21 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 22 | The fire man and I rolled in the wet undergrowth . |
| 23 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 24 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 25 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 26 | She was busy , making , while Edward and I ballooned through the intellectual stratosphere with nothing to show for our efforts but an increase of paper . |
| 27 | I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs . |
| 28 | Israel and I pushed by the startled and helpless usher and swaggered into the arena dressed in our Mau Mau uniforms . |
| 29 | frost-bite , I thought , then the gun butt came down more accurately and everything split into two like a badly adjusted range-finder , and I slid into the black snow . |
| 30 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |