Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 2 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 3 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 4 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 5 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 6 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 7 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
| 8 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 9 | I adored getting drunk and I adored reading in the papers what I had done the night before . |
| 10 | and I did a handbrake turn , yeah , and it did n't work and I went whizzing into a tree totalled the car . |
| 11 | I said , " What 's happening ? " and my dad went like this , right across my face , and I went flying over the table . |
| 12 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |
| 13 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |
| 14 | Last night Dr Clarke 's election agent Kevin Scott said : ‘ One of our supporters lives in Vine Street and Donald and I went knocking on a few doors . |
| 15 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 16 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 17 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 18 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 19 | while I sat working in the sun . |
| 20 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 21 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 22 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I 'd try to go before I kept going to the public one 's |
| 24 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 25 | I tried your idea Mr Derr , but had to give it up when I kept falling off the ladder . |
| 26 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 27 | When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill . |
| 28 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 29 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 30 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |