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Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Wearily I trailed back into the house .
2	Mostly I got on with her . ’
3	Slowly I get out of the bag .
4	Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
5	Slowly I reached out to my open door and pulled it shut .
6	Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings .
7	Eventually I came out of the leeward shadows into ‘ the gleaming halls of morn ’ and , bliss at last , walked on firm snow instead of haggling through heather .
8	Eventually I went along to meetings at Community House ; then the gay discos .
9	Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist .
10	He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash .
11	Eventually I arrived down near Leicester Square , found a cafe that was still open and bought myself another cup of tea .
12	Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road .
13	Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces .
14	Eventually I ended up in the Sealink arrival lounge .
15	‘ Besides , it sounds as if you might be glad of a spare pair of hands , unless … unless you 'd rather I kept out of the way , of course ? ’
16	‘ Would you rather I turned up in my paint-stained jeans and smelling of turpentine ? ’
17	Dazedly I got back into bed and tried to figure out what had happened .
18	Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting .
19	Suddenly I shouted out into the night air .
20	And then suddenly I pop back to life , clamber across Jenny 's lap and open the window .
21	From the path below I looked back towards the house .
22	I 'm not blaming them , but your mother and father thought it was a good idea , and foolishly I went along with them .
23	‘ Perhaps I fell out of a plane , ’ she said despondently .
24	The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ .
25	And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me .
26	So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two .
27	Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind .
28	So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 .
29	So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 .
30	So I came out with my speech about this weirdo , nothing in it et cetera et cetera , and then the money ran out and I got her to ring me back and I said it all over again ( nothing in it … ) and she hooted and said , ‘ I 'll bet .