Example sentences of "i [vb past] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf .
2 First thing , I went to the boarding-house where I lived and put on my suit .
3 I knelt and gazed around in astonishment .
4 After a few paces I stopped and looked around .
5 And I went two or three steps down the stairs before I stopped and looked back .
6 I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back .
7 The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around .
8 I stopped and put down my shopping next to the hedge .
9 I gulped and peered over my shoulder to make sure Benjamin was behind me .
10 I parked and got out .
11 Aunt Louise 's glance slid back over her shoulder to see if I had appreciated the window ; I nodded and smiled back .
12 Then I turned and ran back .
13 But I turned and ran out of the room .
14 Mr Palmer seemed incapable of speech , and his mouth remained wide open as I turned and walked out of the office .
15 I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church .
16 I turned and looked out of the window again .
17 I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score .
18 It was the wee lad shoving his basket into me and laughing fit to burst when I turned and looked down at him .
19 Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam .
20 Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me .
21 Half closing my eyes , I turned and backed on to the porch .
22 I sighed and sat down on the stairs .
23 I swivelled and strode up to the end of a passage .
24 I sniffed and rootled around down there for at least ten minutes , and got in several good licks and kisses .
25 When John Clifford , who began his working life in a mill , wrote home after preaching in New York , he told his family that , ‘ Mr J. D. Rockefeller came and spoke to me , thanked me , and said he would like to take hold of my skirts when I ascended and go up with me .
26 The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill .
27 I did not expect to survive but miraculously I escaped and got out of the country .
28 I followed and peered round .
29 I lied and shouted back that I did n't know where it was .
30 I feel as if the woman I loved and looked up to never existed . ’
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