Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 They were endlessly busy when they were n't praying and I remembered their surroundings as always faintly shining .
2 You 're suggesting that I damaged your car deliberately .
3 If the first two rows started barfing when I took my shirt off , I would n't do it again … ’
4 He was looking when I scored my first ever strike .
5 The evening sky was darkening as I made my way up to Claro .
6 Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side .
7 ‘ I did get a letter once from a girl asking if I wore my underpants , ’ admits a shame-faced Sam .
8 So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time .
9 People were boarding and I elbowed my way into line .
10 I was stiff and shaking and I had my face in my hands , crying unrestrainedly .
11 ‘ He only tries when there 's an England selector watching and I said his OBE stood for ‘ Overweight Bag of Excrement ’ . ’
12 There was , there was a programme on Channel Four there to I was watching before I picked my book up and they had Conservative Labour bloke and the independent er Liberals and these were supposedly they have on on er Channel Four a a programme called Week in Politics anyway this night , this , tonight they were doing a a fu , they had a floating audience , supposedly a floating audience
13 I noticed I was humming as I tidied my things ; a little hymn ; ‘ Green Hill Far Away , ’ as it happened .
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