Example sentences of "[adj] and i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was frantically doing this and I showed up at rehearsal thinking they were going to do all the songs , but we did n't do anything until two or three days later ! |
| 2 | But the floor was wet and I slid along before colliding with a slab of sprats , cod and ice which showered over me . |
| 3 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 4 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
| 5 | We all had to warm up again later and I did n't have the necessary background for that ; when we finally ran , Buster was the winner , Drew second and I came in third . |
| 6 | They were both reeling about exchanging swinging blows not ten feet from table six and I stood up automatically , more in defence than interference . |
| 7 | so that eight sevens are fifty six and I carry on from there , but you ca n't do that |
| 8 | I asked him , but he was already asleep and I drove on to Huacho , wondering what sort of a man Gómez would turn out to be and why Iris Sunderby had broken her journey at Lima and driven up to Cajamarca . |
| 9 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 10 | it was only ten to eight and I got up because I thought I was getting late for work and I 'd better get moving . |
| 11 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |
| 12 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 13 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 14 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 15 | His mother got ill and I went back . |
| 16 | However , they caused me no ill and I staggered back to the Golden Turk and the tender care of the slattern , a bowl of rich broth and countless frothing tankards of ale . |
| 17 | forget all about that , just let your mind go blank and I look round and I said cor that was quick . |
| 18 | Individually they are fine and I get on very well with most of them , but put them together in a group and they seem to have an attitude problem . |
| 19 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 20 | Aye er the when I was I got better and I got down to and there was a fella come to look and see me . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that this was the main reason why I delayed accepting a promotion post until it was too late and I ran out of time . |
| 22 | ‘ My husband was made redundant and I went out to work while he stayed at home to do the chores . |
| 23 | I had left Armstrong too long and I hurried back , resisting the temptation to damage the Sierra in some small way ( just for peace of mind ) . |
| 24 | Ellen was still arguing with me as Thessy and I climbed in and backfired away , but I was no longer listening . |
| 25 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 26 | So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs . |
| 27 | It was beautiful and I sat down to enjoy it . |
| 28 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
| 29 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 30 | I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’ |