Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 2 | I was we were playing this and erm they were really good because they 'd obviously played before and I could n't and they just kept it was really funny cos I kept getting like two and getting like two thousand or whatever and I want to do it really well , I 'm playing them again but they would n't so it |
| 3 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 4 | I was eleven years old when I started playing golf . |
| 5 | And it would be rather pointless if I started trying to ape him . |
| 6 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 7 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 9 | Going to hospital is so frightening that I start eating again . |
| 10 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 11 | The graphics on this game are so good that I kept trying to push the buttons on the screen . |
| 12 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 13 | To me , the content was so uninteresting that I stopped opening the cover , so that the numerous approaches offering me overpriced advertising space were always rejected . |
| 14 | I 'm so stupid that I started doing cocaine to try to understand him — to get close to him and understand where he was coming from . |
| 15 | I think my babies and animals are good and I enjoy doing it … . |
| 16 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 17 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 18 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 19 | She looked so fresh and happy that I started grinning as soon as I waved to her , standing below me in the cockpit of the boat , where a servant from Faalifu was carrying some packages while Captain Baker looked down from the bridge . |
| 20 | ‘ Visitors are very important and I love having people here , though I don ‘ t want to have too many at the same time . |
| 21 | I 'm happy until I go shopping or see the ‘ ideal woman ’ who 's half my size in a magazine . |
| 22 | The result was very rewarding and I enjoyed doing it very much . |
| 23 | I adored getting drunk and I adored reading in the papers what I had done the night before . |
| 24 | FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too |
| 25 | Because I had some personal problems at the start and the two girls were small when I come working |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't had any breakfast yet and I get dizzy if I start moving my feet fast before I 've eaten . ’ |
| 27 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 28 | A seventh final category covered miscellaneous responses which would not fit neatly into either of the six other strategies ; these included ‘ if they sounded incongruous , [ I ] tended to choose an unfavourable response ’ and ‘ it was difficult because I kept forgetting what had gone before so probably ended up guessing ’ . |
| 29 | I was right when I said having you here would do more for me than all the medicines in the world . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd go mad if I started putting on weight . |