Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Scottish cruise I distinguished myself by bending our port propeller on a rock in the Caledonian Canal whilst negotiating a shallow bend , and although we could still use the bent prop I was very conscious of the faux pas with our Chairman on board . |
| 2 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 3 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 4 | When he came home he was distant and vague , and preoccupied , and in the end I accused him of having a mistress . ’ |
| 5 | I think it 's time I did something about getting out of this damnable situation . ’ |