Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having studied my chemistry in the steam age ’ , he writes , ‘ presumably I have missed out on the new ‘ water ’ . |
| 2 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 3 | Right I propose to go through and go through one of our Green . |
| 4 | Luckily I managed to warm up on a few business trips ! |
| 5 | Eventually I decided to give up . |
| 6 | Because I want to get on I try to keep out of trouble . |
| 7 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 8 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 9 | But morally I 've grown up downwards . |
| 10 | Naturally I wanted to find out more about her family . ’ |
| 11 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 12 | But when it rained , going down I mean going down it rained so much I thought we 'd never , never even going to get there . |
| 13 | Now I wonder — perhaps I wanted to go back , really , but did n't want to admit it . |
| 14 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 15 | But obviously I 'd got on to something a bit more skilled and I still had this know all attitude . |
| 16 | So I went laden out , I 'd never flown before , and I went to Kenya and life is very very different from hospitals in this country . |
| 17 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 18 | so I had to lie down properly and crawl over the top of it . |
| 19 | Something I 'd never to do , so I had to settle down and get School Certificate , which I got with my matric exemption , and people from did . |
| 20 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 21 | So I had to go out shoplifting every day then . |
| 22 | So I had to go out and let Ashley and Kelly out |
| 23 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 24 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 25 | And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it . |
| 26 | So I had to go along with it , to avoid making him suspicious ’ . |
| 27 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 28 | So I had to drive out past him , pull over to the other side of the road as much as possible to let him come through and the other cars come through , then I could come . |
| 29 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 30 | So I had to stay back in er in Stapleford , the Stapleford Home Guard . |