Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather .
2 I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday .
3 After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone .
4 If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway .
5 Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period .
6 The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet .
7 ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter .
8 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
9 When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’
10 I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] .
11 So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive .
12 I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’
13 ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’
14 ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’
15 I got held up at the last minute . ’
16 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
17 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
18 I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying .
19 ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy .
20 I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while …
21 I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it
22 I tried to sit down on the bed and wait .
23 I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me .
24 ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said .
25 Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn .
26 When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate .
27 I tried to climb down to the nest once .
28 On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks .
29 ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts .
30 For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat .
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