Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 2 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |
| 3 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 4 | I looked from one to the other . |
| 5 | For the rest of the evening , I thought of nothing but the stranger on the marshes . |
| 6 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 7 | I went past one as the sounds of the seven o'clock service grew from behind the gaping shutters . |
| 8 | I fell through everybody for the report . |
| 9 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 10 | I wished for nothing but the absence of pain , and Lili seemed beyond harm : as secure and unassailable as the morning-star . |