Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 2 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 3 | Yet , directly I stepped out into the sunshine again , my superior self took over , and I looked at the matter differently . |
| 4 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 5 | We visited each weekend , and I looked after the baby during the week . |
| 6 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 7 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 8 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 9 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 11 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 12 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 13 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 14 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 15 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 16 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 17 | Dr Jaffery and I passed by a cluster of black-chadored ladies spooning ice cream under their veils . |
| 18 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 19 | ‘ The phone went at 3am and I rushed to the hospital . |
| 20 | He and I got into a bit of a squabble . |
| 21 | ‘ Connors and I got to the hotel just as your boys were leaving , ’ I continued . |
| 22 | ‘ Fortunately the traffic cleared and I got to the studio to start my show with two minutes to go . ’ |
| 23 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 24 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 25 | Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol . |
| 26 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 27 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 28 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 29 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 30 | Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair . |