Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 32 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 33 | Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair . |
| 34 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 35 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 36 | I came into the room and it was full of smoke … and I fell over the mat … and no one noticed … and switched on the light … and the party was in full swing . |
| 37 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 38 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 39 | and I laughed about the onlookers asking each other ‘ Who are they ? ’ and trying to place us . |
| 40 | Surkov and I sprawled on the twin beds ; Rozanov sat on the floor , his back against the drawn curtains ; Masha , in a comfortable chair , kicked off her high heels and drew her legs under her flower-patterned skirt . |
| 41 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 42 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | So he goes out and starts the number and I followed with the guitar intro — you know , the tapping thing — and it turned the whole gig around . |
| 45 | Liz and I followed in the support vehicle , a splendid Vauxhall Frontera turbo diesel which was kindly lent by our friends at Vauxhall Motors who have also adopted CRMF as their Charity of the Year . |
| 46 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 47 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 48 | I had no choice but to leave and I made for the kitchen carrying the dollar on the tray like a trophy anchored by a thumb . |
| 49 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 50 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 53 | Erm and I thought on the whole , the language was scriptural . |
| 54 | I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’ |
| 55 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 56 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 57 | My parents loved each other very much , and I learnt from the example of their love . |
| 58 | ‘ Mais oui , ’ he said , and I shrugged in the sunlight , trying to disregard the foreign mists of foreboding . |
| 59 | At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron . |
| 60 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |