Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearily I trailed back into the house . |
| 2 | Mostly I got on with her . ’ |
| 3 | Slowly I get out of the bag . |
| 4 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 5 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 6 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 7 | Slowly I reached out to my open door and pulled it shut . |
| 8 | Slowly I got up and drew some long breaths . |
| 9 | Slowly I put back the receiver and climbed upstairs . |
| 10 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
| 11 | Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings . |
| 12 | At the airport he kept looking back as we were walking towards our plane ; eventually I looked back too and saw an attractive young woman hurrying along after us . |
| 13 | Eventually I came out of the leeward shadows into ‘ the gleaming halls of morn ’ and , bliss at last , walked on firm snow instead of haggling through heather . |
| 14 | eventually I went up and I tried to get him to go down to sleep again , and he was shutting his eyes and on his dummy , but he was |
| 15 | Eventually I went along to meetings at Community House ; then the gay discos . |
| 16 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 17 | But even eventually I got in . |
| 18 | Eventually I get up to leave . |
| 19 | Eventually I checked out other guitar ads in the October issue . |
| 20 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 21 | Eventually I gave in and accepted it . |
| 22 | Eventually I gave in , just as both of us knew I would . |
| 23 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 24 | Eventually I arrived down near Leicester Square , found a cafe that was still open and bought myself another cup of tea . |
| 25 | Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid . |
| 26 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 27 | But eventually I settled down . |
| 28 | Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces . |
| 29 | The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales . |
| 30 | Eventually I ended up in the Sealink arrival lounge . |