Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 2 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 3 | ‘ And here 's some extra to get your car cleaned after I 've dripped so much on to it . ’ |
| 4 | A very cloak and dagger episode followed when I had to meet a colleague on shore after landing on a remote beach by motor boat . |
| 5 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
| 6 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 7 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 8 | I had a little money saved and I began to use it up . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you can go and get your lovely hair done while I get some food cooked . |
| 10 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 11 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 12 | ‘ But some of the young people in the bar explained and I rushed off to get a camera . ’ |
| 13 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 14 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 15 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 16 | My gaze dropped and I saw a ring — an iridescent opal , set in a circle of rich , blood-red garnets . |
| 17 | I might try and get a bit of work done before I turn in . |
| 18 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 19 | Next , I had to run crying through the concrete concourses in dawn rain until my panic slowed and I recognized the city and myself in the matt and muffled streets . |
| 20 | This time I want to have the work finished before I approach a gallery and then I can say , ‘ Take it or leave it ’ ! |
| 21 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 22 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 23 | The only injury was a bleeding nose sustained when I crashed down onto my face , following the blast . |
| 24 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 25 | I want a job done and I want it done properly . |
| 26 | I want the room sealed until I get there . |
| 27 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 28 | The moment passed and I slowed quickly , dropping to a trot as I approached the Bomb Circle , almost staggering into it , then flinging myself on to the sand inside to lie panting , heaving , gasping , staring at the grey sky and invisible drizzle , spread-eagled in the centre of the rocks . |
| 29 | My meeting ended when I asked Kagan who the gentleman was who was now married to the young lady concerned . |
| 30 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |