Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 2 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 3 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 4 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 5 | So , at half-past eleven that night , Sapt and I rode out to the house in New Avenue . |
| 6 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 8 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 9 | I got out to the end of the runway first , applied my brakes and did my run-up and magneto checks , whilst waiting impatiently for the oil temperature to rise to the required degree . |
| 10 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 11 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 12 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 13 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 14 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 15 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 16 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 17 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |
| 18 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 19 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 20 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 21 | I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car . |
| 22 | I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst . |
| 23 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 24 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 25 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 26 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 27 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 28 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 29 | I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room . |
| 30 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |