Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tenzing and I shook hands and then Tenzing threw his arms around my shoulders . |
| 2 | For example , the first issue appearing after I poked fun at The Guardian for spelling septic as ‘ sceptic ’ had an article that spelt aseptic as ‘ asceptic ’ . |
| 3 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
| 4 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 5 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 6 | ‘ His interest was flattering and I felt Newcastle were right for me . |
| 7 | You could see her whole body shaking and I remembered Clement Moore 's The Night Before Christmas ; ‘ a right jolly old elf … with a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly . ’ |
| 8 | My life was deconstructing and I took refuge in my work . |
| 9 | I was only fully into skating after I left school and went into college . |
| 10 | I am aware of that provision , to which I was referring before I gave way to my right hon. Friend — and I hope that it will be widely understood by parents throughout the country . |
| 11 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |
| 12 | While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected . |