Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 5 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 6 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 7 | To harmonize my body language with Alison 's , I turned to look out of the window . |
| 8 | The man and I began edging out of the kitchen . |
| 9 | A man I knew came out of the block next to mine . |
| 10 | I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick . |
| 11 | I was lucky , I managed to dive out of the way . |
| 12 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 13 | Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum |
| 14 | I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good |
| 15 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 16 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 17 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 18 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 19 | I had to get out of the business . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 21 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |
| 22 | I was n't watched closely ; I had opted out of the ( sexual ) competition with my sisters ; and some of my eccentricities were tolerated on the grounds that my presence in the house was only temporary and , in the long run , of little relevance to its essential life . |
| 23 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 24 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
| 25 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
| 26 | I had to stare out of the window . |
| 27 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 28 | I was frightened by the helpless , shaking anger that had hold of me ; I wanted to get out of the room . |
| 29 | I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped . |