Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 2 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 3 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I taped I want you to check it for me , I taped me and Sue walking home cos I have to do around the school you see . |
| 8 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 9 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I hope I am better at spelling now than I was then . |
| 10 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 11 | I have n't got round to videoing today cos I was out teaching this afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 13 | I hear the ghosts of the sailors laughing triumphantly because I 've come to join them . |
| 14 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
| 15 | I am painting again and I 'm selling and that means a lot . |
| 16 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 17 | The morning was wasting away and I was on a promise to deliver women for Simon down in Southwark . |
| 18 | I did n't think he 'd be cooking tonight cos I knew they were n't shutting the |
| 19 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 20 | You 're here to see us acting naturally and I do n't see why we should change , because then you 're not getting a true picture , are you ? |
| 21 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 22 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
| 23 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 24 | I hate living here and I hate you . |
| 25 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 26 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 27 | I never felt stiff after training even before I was 27 . |
| 28 | Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head . |
| 29 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 30 | I presume serfs are still living there and I 'd rather break in than see innocent people die of hunger while — ’ |