Example sentences of "of [noun sg] i [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted .
2 Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there .
3 Of course I got the ferry to Appin and a lift to the very pier south of the narrows of Loch Leven where JTR landed .
4 So er er after a bit you see he changed them round , he , he guessed somebody were and of course I got the job
5 Of course I enjoyed the company at school because my childhood was a bit lonely .
6 And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's
7 and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past
8 With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board .
9 On the last day of term I met the President and dons to say goodbye .
10 Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " .
11 In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious .
12 I slung my rifle over my shoulder and clutching the bottle of wine I crossed the bridge for the second time , heading east , turning to wave to the couple at the door of the café .
13 And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside .
14 As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 .
15 A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) .
16 Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs .
17 When he was out of sight I pushed the curtains aside and ran downstairs .
18 With a feeling of fatalism I grasped the teat again .
19 Out of curiosity I counted the times that ‘ problem ’ cropped up in a town plan document .
20 With a new lease of energy I reached the top only a minute or two after them .
21 ‘ After a few days of production I had the opportunity to approach Dustin , ’ Silvis remembered .
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