Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I nearly choked laughing when I heard you were doing a breakfast show . |
| 3 | ’ I stopped speaking as I noticed how strangely he was staring at me . |
| 4 | I stopped dancing when I came |
| 5 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 6 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 7 | I know she ai n't really interested in shop windows and that , but she do n't mind waiting while I have a look . |
| 8 | Yeah , I 'm just gon na keep going till I land on the wedding . |
| 9 | Mr Hume , speaking in a BBC World at One interview yesterday , vowed : ‘ But I 'll keep talking until I get lasting peace . ’ |
| 10 | The last thing I remember seeing before I fall asleep is an eagle carrying a snake in its deathly grasp high above the road . |
| 11 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 12 | " But presently I began to wonder , to notice that everything was changed … they would stop talking when I came into the room , or there were hush-hush whispers … and my mother crying so dreadfully … |
| 13 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 14 | I certainly Mr Chairman welcome this paper erm and I know today that I think possibly the main reason being erm , I could be deemed also been through and through today responding to our local issue and that maybe due to May fever , I do n't know , erm , in really accepting acknowledging as I have done in the past your efforts , erm the county surveyor 's efforts for this part of Suffolk I do again bring to your attention and I do n't think is being critical in that the Barnet by bypass is part of a far bigger jigsaw and that jigsaw I say not |
| 15 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 16 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 17 | If the first two rows started barfing when I took my shirt off , I would n't do it again … ’ |
| 18 | Er either sooner or later we 've just got to keep going as I say . |
| 19 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 20 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 21 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 22 | But maybe you think of course I started rambling when I started off but er |
| 23 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 24 | So in a panic I went into a room , closed the door , and started screaming until I got hoarse . |
| 25 | Am I more likely to continue exercising if I join a class where there is a certain amount of discipline ? |
| 26 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 27 | And he said , I had all that and that 's why every time you called me something I just kept laughing cos I had it on tape . |
| 28 | Keep going till I land on it |
| 29 | I keep buying after I go at half past they half a dozen |
| 30 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |