Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits . |
| 2 | Then for twice that long I sat twitching on the shower 's deck , the silver snout tuned to full heat and heft but doing nothing much to wash off my rot . |
| 3 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
| 4 | Clearly I connected eating with the beneficence of nature ( the sun , the products of the earth ) and with friendship , companionship and community . |
| 5 | Er well I started going for a holiday by myself when I was about er |
| 6 | ‘ Surprisingly I enjoyed going to the ladies ’ sewing circle , with Matey , ’ wrote Sally-Anne in her journal . |
| 7 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 8 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 9 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 10 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |