Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 2 | Instinctively I take off my shoes and feel the springy grass beneath my bare feet . |
| 3 | Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook . |
| 4 | But perhaps I have not your generosity . |
| 5 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 6 | So I took off my spacesuit . |
| 7 | So I made up my stories . |
| 8 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | So I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went , oh God ! |
| 11 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 12 | and it was er open on her bed , she popped out for , for about , I du n no forty odd minutes to get her hair done or something I was well tempted to have a look , but I thought no if I get a diary and somebody looked , looked through mine I would n't be happy about it , so I did n't its quite a hard temptation but |
| 13 | So I pulled out my SG , and not plugged into anything or making any pretence towards collecting money , started to exercise my fingers scale-wise . |
| 14 | So I lined up my archers on a hill of my own flesh , dressed them all in white , blancoed their arrows and set them off . |
| 15 | I could see Quigley was about to make another move , but before he could do so I held out my hands , palm downwards , in a gesture much favoured by Mr Toombs in his last ecclesiastical campaign . |
| 16 | So I gave up my quest . |
| 17 | So I plucked up my courage and tapped gently on the door . |
| 18 | off Dracula so I propped up my daub |
| 19 | Around four o'clock I packed up my books and went into my house to wash and change . |
| 20 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 21 | One Queens district resident said : ‘ Yesterday I looked out my window and I saw a guy doing the back stroke down my block . |
| 22 | Involuntarily I reach out my arm . |
| 23 | Whenever I picked up my guitar I played the same basic scalar and arpeggiated patterns . |
| 24 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 25 | When I glanced sideways I noticed how his face had changed ; the air of bonhomie and lazy good humour had disappeared . |
| 26 | Now I know where my walk is taking me . |
| 27 | Now I know why your Adolph Hitler says you 're the master race . |
| 28 | ‘ Now I know how my grandparents felt when they heard that Derek was to hang from journalists at their door . ’ |
| 29 | Now I think back our sunday sides run of excellent results coincides with our new shirts which are nice ‘ n silky . |
| 30 | But as I was walking around I noticed how her eyes followed the dog with great interest . |