Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 2 | ‘ When I asked you earlier where I fitted into the assignment you said that I 'd find out soon enough . |
| 3 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 4 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 5 | This was , at least , an improvement on an earlier pattern , where I went into the end-game with a lead of about 30 — and then lost on the black . |
| 6 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 7 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
| 8 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 9 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 10 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 11 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 12 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
| 13 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 14 | Although I insisted to the referee that the goal should stand because I had sent Pahdra on as substitute , the ref was not fooled , especially as Mr Singh was still wearing his dufflecoat and brogues . |
| 15 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 16 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 17 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 18 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 19 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 20 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 21 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 22 | " Since we were n't being shown any buffalo , " replied the senator , smiling easily , " we bagged a muntjac that I spotted on the plain — for one of our smaller groups . " |
| 23 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 24 | I remember very well from the moment that I fell from the boat and felt my feet strike some soft substance . |
| 25 | It was not until years later that I heard about the societies known as Buffaloes and Foresters . |
| 26 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 27 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 28 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 29 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 30 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |