Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
3 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
4 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
5 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
6 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
7 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
8 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
9 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
10 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
11 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
12 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
13 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
14 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
15 | I make out the sunk foundations |
16 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
17 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
18 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
19 | So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory . |
20 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
21 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
22 | I tumbled over a drunk lying spreadeagled in the close . |
23 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
24 | Next I tried out a different approach . |
25 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
26 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
27 | I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . " |
28 | In trying to keep the wheelbarrow upright as I walked , I moved along a wavy line . |
29 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
30 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |