Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb base] [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Instinctively I take off my shoes and feel the springy grass beneath my bare feet .
2 When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move .
3 and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together
4 So I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went , oh God !
5 Involuntarily I reach out my arm .
6 Now I write down what he said , it seems so obvious .
7 Now I think back our sunday sides run of excellent results coincides with our new shirts which are nice ‘ n silky .
8 Now I find out he should never have been on the road .
9 Now I look back I marvel at the devotion of the teaching staff of these Evening Institutes , and also to the men who staffed the District Line from West Brompton to Westminster .
10 Oh well I take back what I said then .
11 Think oh well I come back I ca n't .
12 Then I take back my Daily Telegraph , fold it to hide his envelope , and return the paper to my pocket .
13 Sometimes I get out my violin and we all three play some music together , which is a kind of combination of work and conversation — it has all the tense absorption of the one , and all the anxiety to reach the end , together with all the wordless companionability of the other .
14 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
15 I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity .
16 It is only when I take off my glasses that I realize the extent to which the skill is providing ‘ back-up ’ information .
17 Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ?
18 But this time when I go back I mean to stay and die there , because , let me tell you ’ — she wagged her finger first at the Colonel and then at Reginald — ‘ there 's a time coming when there 'll be no France and very little England , or any place else . ’
19 I 'll say it is I 'll say it is but she says she has a trapped nerve in the top of her leg , she says sometimes it 's not so bad but she said it 's not bad , you know when I get up she says I 'm in a lot of pain and it , you have to take painkillers for it
20 Sure so at least you 'll know when I come back I 'm gon na ask you , thank you very much indeed .
21 work when I was fifteen , and I was away then for a while and then after the war when I come back I was working at at Cruisbruk .
22 ‘ Some mornings when I wake up I just want to give it all up .
23 Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head !
24 ‘ Be yours and Cora-Beth 's when I turn up my toes , ’ he said .
25 ‘ It 's when I look down I do n't like it . ’
26 This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations .
27 Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden .
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