Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 2 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 3 | In an earlier article for Link I said that is a fun place to work . |
| 4 | I 'm getting the blame for crime I did n't commit . |
| 5 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 6 | for practice I supposed . |
| 7 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 8 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 9 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 10 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 11 | After lunch I went into town , taking Gravel my bike and some money . |
| 12 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 13 | After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference . |
| 14 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 15 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 16 | When I looked after Father I had all the modern equipment I needed . |
| 17 | Tonight after supper I told him he could buy paper from Woolworths and use gloves and so on . |
| 18 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 19 | As usual , after supper I played one of a dozen tape recordings of sermons by the Reverend John McArthur of Sun Valley , California . |
| 20 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 21 | Complaint after complaint I had to deal with : the bed too hard , the air-conditioner whistled ( me , I was surprised it worked ) , a spider in the goddamned bath . |
| 22 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 23 | The next morning after breakfast I crossed over to Demetriades 's table . |
| 24 | After breakfast I ventured forth , and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings . |
| 25 | After breakfast I decided to visit Brigade H.Q Taff was sitting on the grass just outside the trench cleaning his Bren gun . |
| 26 | Next morning , 19th July , all is quiet , and after breakfast I decided to pay a visit to the other Commando units ; 4 Commando and 3 Commando , lots of new faces , not many of those who landed on the 6th June are left . |
| 27 | After breakfast I started afresh . |
| 28 | Wednesday after playschool I said to you I can afford that jumper I 've got twenty seven pound |
| 29 | After treatment I removed the copper and treated with Myxazin , but I still lost the fish about three months after it first stopped feeding . |
| 30 | After school I had a clarinet lesson . |