Example sentences of "[conj] i walk [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I was frightened but I wanted to see , so I walked slowly towards the tree .
2 On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window .
3 The man moved away , in surprise , and I walked over to the desk .
4 He sank back into his chair as Pyke and I walked away from the table , and tossed the whisky down his throat .
5 After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
6 By then it was too late to get the room and I walked back to the spot where I had committed the robbery .
7 The police sounded surprised that I had bothered to call them , and I walked back to the boatyard feeling strangely foolish .
8 That afternoon , my feelings soothed with company and talk , Sally and I walked back down the bright valley through cricket-loud grasses and thousands of flowers .
9 Benjamin and I walked back into the hall .
10 A quick shower in the bright pink bathroom with its already peeling tiles , more cream , a fast selection of long skirt and blouse , a final comb through my hair , and I walked out into the sun .
11 There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass .
12 I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day
13 I continued for fifty minutes , alienating the audience more with every gag , until I walked off to the sound of my own footsteps .
14 I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares .
15 ‘ He 'll have to learn quickly or he 'll be out , although I ca n't talk because I walked out of the club . ’
16 The day after I walked out of the Times-Herald office I went to see Joe Hallonquist at his office in the Hammond Building .
17 When I walk out of the house and through the square on my way to a final peaceful meditation at my favourite bay view in trigo cebada , the young man from last night comes out of a doorway with a large cassette in his arms .
18 ‘ You 're saying then that when I walk out of the church I 'm on my own . ’
19 When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it .
20 I believe I gave Joe a bit of a shock when I walked up to the table and played a few shots with him .
21 All around me voices were saying , ‘ Good luck ’ , as I walked on to the stage , but I was much too nervous to do anything but nod , grimly .
22 I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden .
23 In the morning , as I walked again among the modest , secluded women in the town bazaars , the vision of the night seemed like a dream .
24 I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand .
25 As I walked bemusedly round the animal , taking in the trembling limbs and terrified eyes , a jumble of thoughts crowded my brain .
26 Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river .
27 Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’
28 As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be …
29 As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 .
30 Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day .
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