Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 2 | Then — unimaginable the strangeness of it , the shock of it — the sound swelled again and I knew beyond doubt what was being sung up there . |
| 3 | One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon . |
| 4 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 5 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 6 | The barn shook again as I got to my feet and made my way to the door with the feeling that the barn had been very lucky so far in not receiving a direct hit from one of the frequent mortar bombs that were exploding in and around the farm . |
| 7 | She pulled backwards if I spoke to her and lay down in the grass at every opportunity , refusing to move . |
| 8 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 9 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 10 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 11 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 12 | My relief grew rapidly as I warmed to the theory . |
| 13 | Moreover , my mother , who worried even if I travelled to London , was initially distraught by the idea . |
| 14 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 15 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 16 | We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could . |
| 17 | And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ? |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Ellen , ’ she said , ‘ I cried bitterly when I heard of Catherine 's death , you know . |
| 19 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 20 | They did n't play loud ; they played where they could hear each other in the studio , and that natural leakage — as I learned later when I got into engineering — actually helped to blend the tonal quality . ’ |
| 21 | I closed the curtains , went to bed , pulled the blanket high over my head and slept peacefully until I heard through layers of consciousness that unforgettable sound , the voice of the wind . |
| 22 | So I said well if I go up me being light , I 'll go up and he holds the ladder |
| 23 | And I said okay and I said to her dance teacher in front of her she wants to go to a disco . |
| 24 | I went with er Superintendent to er where we positioned ourselves in a control vehicle and er I remained there until I heard from the firearms team inside the house that all occupants of the house had been found and were secured . |