Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold . |
| 2 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 3 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 4 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 5 | She was a kind woman and whenever I called with a message she would sit me down and fetch me a biscuit or a glass of milk . |
| 6 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 7 | That was when I was about fourteen and then I went through a stage of listening to Al Di Meola , people like that , just trying to be a better guitarist . |
| 8 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |
| 9 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 10 | So then when I got back to erm er St Giles erm I was there for a month and then I went into a home for the blind and handicapped |
| 11 | And then I had about a a a two mile walk to pit bottom , you see . |
| 12 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 13 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 14 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
| 15 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 16 | And then I came to a promontory of rock from which I had a view of Geneva , and was shaken . |
| 17 | I talk about a textual body , and then I talk about a body that I inhabit and so many make bastions and institutions do n't want that . |
| 18 | He stayed there , in a room upstairs , and sometimes I slept in a room downstairs . |
| 19 | And sometimes I build in a Sunday walk , something I really enjoy , to reward myself for a ‘ hard ’ week ! |
| 20 | Real and imagined depths were lurking under the probing axe , and twice I broke through a crust with boot and ferrule . |
| 21 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |
| 22 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 23 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 24 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 25 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 26 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |