Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 2 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 3 | Yet , directly I stepped out into the sunshine again , my superior self took over , and I looked at the matter differently . |
| 4 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 5 | We visited each weekend , and I looked after the baby during the week . |
| 6 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 7 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 8 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 9 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 11 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 12 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 13 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 14 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 15 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 16 | ‘ The phone went at 3am and I rushed to the hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ Connors and I got to the hotel just as your boys were leaving , ’ I continued . |
| 18 | ‘ Fortunately the traffic cleared and I got to the studio to start my show with two minutes to go . ’ |
| 19 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 20 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 21 | Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol . |
| 22 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 29 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 30 | and I laughed about the onlookers asking each other ‘ Who are they ? ’ and trying to place us . |