Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethel found me doubled up . |
| 2 | and me got in and |
| 3 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 4 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 5 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's just me paper I 'm marking me rose on |
| 7 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 8 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 9 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 10 | I asked around about him as a player and they said he was ‘ rough and fearless ’ . ’ |
| 11 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 12 | So I asked around , a word here and there in the sort of places where people hear things . |
| 13 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked around , and they were the only McMahons in Slane . |
| 15 | So when we were there in London I asked around several centers for rehabilitating women and I struck lucky . |
| 16 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 17 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 18 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 19 | I doubled up , retching and heaving , feeling my guts contract like a balling fist inside me ; involuntary , alive , like a woman must feel with a kicking child . |
| 20 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 21 | I doubled back and picked a spot to vault the fence , using a post as a grip . |
| 22 | I gazed around and noticed how white and drawn everyone was . |
| 23 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 24 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 25 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 26 | I gazed up under my eyebrows . |
| 27 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 28 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I gazed out wildly over the crowds . |