Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 2 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | I walked around flaming like a Roman candle . ’ |
| 4 | Henceforth I went around grinning like an idiot , which was n't difficult . |
| 5 | I went round commiserating with the ones I knew , pointing out that if the lady with the bosom was as late as she normally was , the reception would undoubtedly extend into licensing hours . |
| 6 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 7 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 8 | Chris , Nick and I carried on working under the umbrella of the Friends of John McCarthy . |
| 9 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 10 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 11 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 12 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 13 | I could n't go home to my mother because the relationship was still very iffy , so I ended up going to a hostel . |
| 14 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 15 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 16 | I ended up sitting by the lakeside and letting it all drift over me . ’ |