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

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1 I asked around about him as a player and they said he was ‘ rough and fearless ’ . ’
2 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
3 I change out of my pyjamas into them to write
4 ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me .
5 Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness .
6 What do I want out of my working life ?
7 Ask yourself the question ‘ What do I want out of life ? ’
8 I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
9 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
10 I gazed up at the building .
11 I gazed up under my eyebrows .
12 As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight .
13 I gazed down at the reclining form .
14 From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst .
15 I gazed back at him , dumbfounded .
16 I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the
17 I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life .
18 When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
19 The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that .
20 The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director .
21 Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’
22 By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other .
23 What I made out of I mean a lot of small businesses , small business , its like paying Russian roulette every single day .
24 I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue .
25 I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily .
26 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
27 I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the .
28 I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage .
29 In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken .
30 I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man .
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