Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 2 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 3 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 4 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 5 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 6 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 7 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 8 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 9 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 10 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 11 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 12 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 13 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 14 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 16 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 17 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 19 | As she heard me going on about the luncheon party she pulled a face . |
| 20 | She watched me go in to the doctor . |
| 21 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 22 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 23 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 24 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 25 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 26 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 27 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 28 | After no more than two dozen steps , a terrible dizziness had me flopped down in the darkness . |
| 29 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 30 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |