Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 2 | As usual I watched and wondered and defended one side to the other . |
| 3 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 4 | As a stepmother I should like to say how much I identified and sympathised with the writer of ‘ I Love Him But Not His Daughter ’ ( October GH ) . |
| 5 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 6 | ‘ It was so dark I fell and cut my elbow . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 8 | In 1966 I graduated and started work as a research assistant . |
| 9 | And yet these hills are the first I knew and loved . |
| 10 | And I was disappointed I went and say , Hey |
| 11 | In 1967 I married and had my first child . |
| 12 | When I was ready I went and stood beside him and touched his shadow-stained tired face and said , " You look dead , Toby . |