Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 32 | like a cabbage white as I forked out a fiver |
| 33 | I am sharply aware of every move I make , each crack of sound as I put down a cup , each dull ring as I move a spoon , each splash of water , squeak of the tap , thud of my shoe on the floor . |
| 34 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 35 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 36 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 37 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 38 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 39 | Indeed before we even come to the characterization of characters within the drama we find the poem itself being apparently characterized one way but then characterized another in the opening three stanzas : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . |
| 40 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 41 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |