Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 2 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 3 | Correction : mostly I watched the women watching it . |
| 4 | Slowly I unfolded the thick paper and spread it flat in front of me . |
| 5 | Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall . |
| 6 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 7 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 8 | Luckily I had a little book in my pocket called Anaesthetics For Medical Students . |
| 9 | Luckily I found a window seat , as passengers with bags were struggling in . |
| 10 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 11 | Eventually I reached the cliff top . |
| 12 | Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it . |
| 13 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 14 | Eventually I made a commitment to some edges , particularly the diagonals and verticals , carefully placing my principal vanishing point and then co-ordinating the parallel lines to this point on the horizon . |
| 15 | Eventually I made a new friend around the corner . |
| 16 | Eventually I struck the compromise . |
| 17 | ‘ Eventually I got a bit fed up . |
| 18 | So eventually I got a temporary job , er in ni end of sixty , which lasted til er February sixty one . |
| 19 | When I wh went to Yorkshire , in , we lived at Leeds , I could n't get a job and eventually I got a job er in a electrical firm . |
| 20 | Eventually I got an old house , I had another baby , I was still working and put the kids in a nursery . |
| 21 | Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues . |
| 22 | Eventually I walked the night away , twice hiding in the ditch of the old Glencoe road as lagerlout cars — I could hear their maleficent approach down the glen — tyre-screeched past . |
| 23 | ‘ I belong to the Duke of Gloucester Trust and eventually I persuaded the officials to try fitting one of my whistles . |
| 24 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 25 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 26 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 27 | Eventually I joined a real estate company in New Jersey and did rather well . |
| 28 | I 'm totally left-handed , but eventually I learned the bottleneck style used by blues singers . |
| 29 | Eventually I stopped a very helpful young lady member of the staff , told her of my predicament and she guided me back to my table . |
| 30 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |