Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
| 2 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |
| 3 | Lisabeth fumed but I went on . |
| 4 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 5 | My heart sank as I looked around . |
| 6 | He staggered as I clambered on , but stayed upright . |
| 7 | ‘ Thought you 'd backed out , ’ he muttered as I took off my damp coat . |
| 8 | ‘ So I noticed as I came through . ’ |
| 9 | The crunch came when I found out she was sleeping with a couple of other boyfriends , and I discovered I did n't actually care . |
| 10 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 11 | I fought it open and my feet crunched as I went through . |
| 12 | If he was claiming a grant in yours , I did I claimed when I went back to college , my twenties I actually claimed a grant but my father claimed income tax relief claimed under him . |
| 13 | It barked when I drove in . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing , ’ I replied as I scrambled out of the trench , replacing the diary quickly in my hip pocket . |
| 16 | ‘ You remember how he acted when I came out ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 18 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 20 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
| 21 | More than that , I persisted until I got through ! |
| 22 | fucking , fucking crap and as I was saying that my voice broke and I walked off and I started crying |
| 23 | Edward watched as I kicked off my shoes and socks , unbuckled my jeans and let them fall . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 26 | If I went if I went up there |
| 27 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 28 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 29 | It 's a difficult decision but I knew if I married out there , well , there is a certain loneliness , yet going back to English life is unsatisfactory . |
| 30 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |