Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 2 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 3 | Lisabeth 's eyes clouded and I knew I 'd done enough . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 5 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 6 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
| 7 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 8 | He breathed deeply with his eyes shut and I smelt a baked saltiness coming from his jeans and was reminded of Franky . |
| 9 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 10 | I had a little money saved and I began to use it up . |
| 11 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 12 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 13 | ‘ But some of the young people in the bar explained and I rushed off to get a camera . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 15 | My gaze dropped and I saw a ring — an iridescent opal , set in a circle of rich , blood-red garnets . |
| 16 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 17 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 18 | Next , I had to run crying through the concrete concourses in dawn rain until my panic slowed and I recognized the city and myself in the matt and muffled streets . |
| 19 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 20 | ‘ I am top of the averages of the England bowlers selected and I think I am bowling as well as anyone in the side at the moment . |
| 21 | I want a job done and I want it done properly . |
| 22 | I meant to ask if they 'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot . |
| 23 | And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since . |
| 24 | The moment passed and I slowed quickly , dropping to a trot as I approached the Bomb Circle , almost staggering into it , then flinging myself on to the sand inside to lie panting , heaving , gasping , staring at the grey sky and invisible drizzle , spread-eagled in the centre of the rocks . |
| 25 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |
| 26 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 27 | I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today . |
| 28 | Yes and I I I think y my Lord the plaintiffs will be cross examined quite considerably on the damages claimed and I think it might help your Lordship to see erm the way . |
| 29 | His wife answered and I heard a background conversation before she came back to the phone . |
| 30 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |