Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , I happen to have-a flask of Scotch on me , just in case I broke down on the road … |
| 2 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 3 | I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered . |
| 4 | Full of misgiving I drove on into the darkness . |
| 5 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 6 | My last weekend with the car I went over to the Island of Luing , leaving the car ( foot ferry only on Sundays ) at Cuan Ferry . |
| 7 | After spending all morning talking to clients on the telephone , in place of lunch I nipped up to the golf club and played a few holes with one of the assistants . |
| 8 | In a kind of panic I walked back to the carob and along the east side of the gulley to the top of the cliff that overlooked the private beach . |
| 9 | My combat jacket , knife , bags , catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me . |
| 10 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 11 | The next moment I jumped back against the wall , trembling with fear and horror . |
| 12 | To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show . |
| 13 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 14 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 15 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 16 | One day I walked out of the house , leaving all my possessions . |
| 17 | I blush when I recall the day I slipped out of the office , bound for HCI 's Tropicana Beach Club … |
| 18 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 19 | ‘ At midnight I crawled back to the village on my stomach . |
| 20 | So after the opening I ran out of the dressing room to where Dad , in his red waistcoat , was waiting with all the others . |
| 21 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And as to how I found you — when you did n't answer the phone I went round to the flat . |
| 23 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 24 | As a teenager I grew up through the rock ‘ n roll era and witnessed the influence many pop stars exerted on things such as fashion and philosophy . |
| 25 | As a teenager I moved out of the nursery into the attic . |
| 26 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 27 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 28 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 29 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 30 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |