Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 3 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 4 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 5 | He became more active in the business again , and I grew up learning the ropes . ’ |
| 6 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 7 | And I keep on forgetting the name of the group . |
| 8 | He dumped his overnight bag with mine and I went out to tell the driver we were just coming . |
| 9 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 10 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 11 | There between my legs , the front wheels , and I ended up holding the handlebars and staring into this wee boy 's face a look of sheer fucking terror on his face , |
| 12 | She and I separated ( it was like trying to unpick a mangled shoelace ) and I staggered through to take the call . |
| 13 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 14 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 15 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 16 | " I wanted to keep it because I did n't want to leave him while I went out to use the phone — assuming there 's one round here that works , which I doubt , " she said . |
| 17 | Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands . |
| 18 | I have a lot of ideas to work through before I come out predicting the future . ’ |
| 19 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 20 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 21 | I could weep with frustration when I go around seeing the conditions some of our people work in , the pittance they have paid , young people hung around on street corners with no job and no real training . |
| 22 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 23 | You can imagine the excitement when I reached out to open the case . |
| 24 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 25 | As I walked round observing the work I spotted one arrangement that I had not drawn . |
| 26 | Although the story of my doing Balthazar B and the Beastly Beatitudes is a bit strange inasmuch as I ended up playing the part that was completely opposite from the one I was originally intended to do . |