Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 2 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 3 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 4 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 5 | I did have one in the drawer though , I do n't know if it 's still there |
| 6 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 7 | I had to put one in the microwave |
| 8 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 9 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 10 | I had learned something about the protest vote . |
| 11 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 12 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 13 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 14 | Although different , I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London . |
| 15 | erm , now , and erm , anyway I refused to say anything about the |