Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 2 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 3 | He was also possessive ; he only allowed me out twice a week — Wednesday 's Youth Club and Thursday 's Sally Carmichael 's dancing class — and accompanied me to both ( pity he did n't come to the Cricket Lover 's Ball ) . |
| 4 | The weekend before that they only allowed me out one day overnight |
| 5 | Someone else was going to do this one and then they suddenly switched me on to it . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 7 | Well strange enough rang me up |
| 8 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 9 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 10 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 11 | Instinct alone brought me back to alertness , a warning pulse from the innermost guardian of my being . |
| 12 | I waved him away as Karen thoughtfully tucked me in and zipped me up . |
| 13 | ‘ He came legging up behind and just asked me out . |
| 14 | ‘ I was fine until I got on the pitch but then it all drained away and the game just passed me by . |
| 15 | He just wiped me out . ’ |
| 16 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 17 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 18 | No she 's only staying tonight and they think , they just phoned me up then and they were on the square , I think she 's going home phorr what 's that smell , it stinks what ? |
| 19 | ‘ He just dropped me off , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ All that intense passion , the long hours in bed when you made love to me over and over , but never said anything — it just turned me off . |
| 21 | Her reactions momentarily startled me out of my anxiety . |
| 22 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 23 | A plunge in the pool soon turned me off . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It just shook me up . |
| 25 | Our short walk through London soon cheered me up , especially the taverns — The Raven 's Watch , The Bible and Swan , The Leg and Seven Stars — with drinkers outside , their flagons full of ‘ angel 's food ’ or ‘ dragon 's milk ’ , whilst the air was sweet with the smell of soft raisin-filled saffron cakes baking in the cookshops . |
| 26 | I tried to stop him , but he just knocked me down . |
| 27 | He just chatted me up . |
| 28 | Dee 's intense concentration soon settled me down . |
| 29 | My Grandfather arrived and was found to be not my ‘ official ’ guardian , but despite red tape they finally carted me off to be cauterized . |
| 30 | He just waved me through . |