Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 2 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 3 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 4 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 5 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 6 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 7 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 8 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 9 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 10 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 11 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 12 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 13 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 14 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 15 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 16 | The eyes of the Modigliani seemed to glare at me severely , so I sneaked out under the colonnade , where a minute later Conchis joined me . |
| 17 | However , if anyone were misguided enough to give me authority , I would certainly misuse it , so I prayed along with the rest . |
| 18 | About eighty villagers followed me inside , and waited expectantly … so I struck out for the hinterlands . |
| 19 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 20 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 21 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 22 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 23 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |
| 24 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 25 | As I held it , I knew if I looked over to the bed he 'd be there , hands behind his head , stealing , this time , an image of his widow . |
| 26 | " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready . |
| 27 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 28 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 29 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
| 30 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |