Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 3 | You 're preparing me to go out into the street , but I still have to go back to the system first . |
| 4 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 5 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 6 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 9 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 10 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 11 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 12 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it . |
| 15 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 16 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 17 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 18 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 19 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 20 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 21 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 22 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 23 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 24 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 25 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 26 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 27 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 28 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 29 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 30 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |