Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 2 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 3 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 4 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 5 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 6 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 7 | I came up with these answers : |
| 8 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 9 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 10 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 11 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 12 | I chickened out after three days and put the lights back on . |
| 13 | I walked up to these fellers , a few paces , and just stood in front of them , looked at them — they knew what was wanted — ‘ Clear off ! ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes I spent up to six hours a day with her , just getting her ‘ streetwise ’ . |
| 15 | I started out considering five elements . |
| 16 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 17 | I jogged round in 23.2 seconds , a trifle faster than Simmone Jacobs ran in the women 's event . |
| 18 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 19 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 20 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 21 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I know I went to the ice rink and the pictures with Bill O'Hagan but he knew I went out with other fellows as well . |
| 23 | I went in to two corporates yesterday er and erm who are a massive potential for us , right in where we need to be |
| 24 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 25 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 26 | And er when I went along to certain banks , they were asking as much as ninety seven pence a transaction . |
| 27 | I went along to other organizations , joined one or two things , went out a lot . |
| 28 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
| 29 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 30 | ‘ I grew up on these stories . |