Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 2 | Every time I ran past where he was standing he hit me again or tripped me up , sprawling me in the dirt . |
| 3 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 4 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 5 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 6 | These were the only things on the Sorrento that got me down ; at night they sallied from every crack and crevice and nibbled dead skin on the soles of my feet . |
| 7 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 8 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been the noise that woke me up , ’ Jessamy retorted sarcastically . |
| 10 | Car , though that woke me up . |
| 11 | Was that that bloke that rang me up ? |
| 12 | In an interview shortly before his death , he said , ‘ I think it was these imaginings and wonderings to music — that sort of fantasizing to music — that started me off to wish to be a choreographer . ’ |
| 13 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 14 | But as the Air New Zealand 747–400 that brought me back home took off from Auckland International what came into my mind were the lines at the head of this article . |
| 15 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 16 | So that put me off a bit . |
| 17 | So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels . |
| 18 | There 's a landlord with a broken nose in Brighton , and a DHSS hostel that kicked me out . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was Nassim 's mention of the baby that sparked me off , however subconsciously . |
| 20 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you all right , darling ? ’ he asked , and led me along to my son 's house ! |
| 22 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 23 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 24 | I waved him away as Karen thoughtfully tucked me in and zipped me up . |
| 25 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 26 | And as soon as I got a little older , I tell you , they 'd sell a horse , and my father hopped on the bike , come over to the school and got me out ; and I come home here , hopped on the old horse 's back and rode to Yarmouth or Norwich , wherever they sold it . |
| 27 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 28 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 29 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 30 | ‘ You had to drive to Karlovy Vary , and invited me along . ’ |