Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
2 After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved .
3 I asked again about the truck .
4 ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ?
5 As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights .
6 As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights .
7 I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins .
8 I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
9 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
10 I gazed up at the building .
11 Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef .
12 He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
13 I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings .
14 As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight .
15 I gazed down at the reclining form .
16 Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure .
17 From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst .
18 I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly .
19 I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment .
20 I shied away from the prospect .
21 He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray .
22 I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse .
23 I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat .
24 When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
25 I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses .
26 I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing .
27 I refer with er councillor to the remarks I made earlier about the tr the post of the trade union , I do n't propose to say any more on that .
28 I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue .
29 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
30 I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage .
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