Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my stethoscope on her heart and listened to the increasingly faint , rapid beat then I straightened up and sat on the rug looking sightlessly into the fireplace , feeling the warmth of the flames on my face . |
| 2 | I got up and pawed at his trousers . |
| 3 | I got up and walked to the window . |
| 4 | But luckily enough I got up and walked round the back and I could just see the lights on in the living room downstairs . |
| 5 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 6 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 7 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 8 | I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions . |
| 9 | In my dream I got up and went to the office . |
| 10 | At five o'clock I got up and went into the sitting-room . |
| 11 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 12 | I got up and ran after him . |
| 13 | I got up and raced after them . |
| 14 | I got up and dressed in a sweater and pants , made my bed , then sat on the end and shook physically with anxiety . |
| 15 | Grinding my teeth with rage at everything , I got up and dressed in slacks and my old trenchcoat . |
| 16 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 17 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 18 | It was one of my more regrettable decision — for I got up and moved towards Gharr , and Mala . |
| 19 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 20 | I got out and walked across , come back |
| 21 | I got out and sat beside Florence in the back . |
| 22 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 23 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 24 | After nine or ten tournaments with Frank I moved on and caddied for Tom Shaw for three years , from 1969 to 1971 . |
| 25 | I rose hurriedly and stumbled towards the door but the redolence followed me in a wave . |
| 26 | He smiled absently on catching sight of me , and I wandered over and stood in the well of the Steinway . |
| 27 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 28 | In my dream , I woke up and came to the office . |
| 29 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 30 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |