Example sentences of "i [vb past] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone .
2 If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway .
3 Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn .
4 The man and I began edging out of the kitchen .
5 The very next day I started ferreting around in the woods and came upon the most magnificent fortress of a sett .
6 Nonetheless , I started going out with the Thai development workers , to visit villages and meet the people I would be working with for the next two years .
7 Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor .
8 Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school .
9 And I went storming down to the office , did n't I ?
10 I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’
11 I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy .
12 I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd .
13 We were well stuck into an excellent local red type of mouthwash , Donnaz , when Ino insisted on our sampling a white Pinot Noir from one of the localities I remembered crawling through in the train .
14 I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife .
15 I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds .
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