Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 2 | sor he said I 'm sorry he 's going just when I 've just broke him in . |
| 3 | they 're all really like when I , I did n't have a travel card , they all started going just cos I did n't have a travel card . |
| 4 | I 'm going home because I do n't really |
| 5 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going there when I leave here . |
| 7 | Yeah it 's a lot of effort going nowhere if I do n't |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 9 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 10 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 11 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 12 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 13 | I remember him saying once before I do n't , I do n't know what and er he says it 's only a fortnight ago since you know . |
| 14 | She said I was doing well until I fucked off |
| 15 | So I mean well I suppose it 's , times flitting away cos I do n't suppose her solicitor will let it go on forever ! |
| 16 | ‘ You and Salvo were talking just before I came out to breakfast . |
| 17 | I 've been playing ever since I hung up my football boots in 1980 , and the strongest weapon in my armoury is still my lungs : I can shout ‘ FORE ’ louder than anyone I know . |