Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 2 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 3 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 4 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 5 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 6 | No I mean even with a hand saw , you know , I 've done it before |
| 7 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 8 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 9 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 10 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 11 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 12 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 13 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 14 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 15 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 16 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 17 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 18 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 19 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 20 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
| 21 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 22 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 23 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 24 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I got home with a couple of bags and discovered a horror of horrors . |
| 26 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 27 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 28 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 29 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 30 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |