Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
| 2 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 3 | Thought he 'd got me weighed up — eating out of his hand . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd met Kristin and Sabine that morning and they 'd told me to come over and described where they were now living . |
| 5 | When he 'd gone I went back to bed . |
| 6 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 7 | Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself . |
| 8 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 9 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 10 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 11 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 12 | And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand . |
| 13 | When Giorgio had skipped I went back and thought no more about it . |
| 14 | It was the thought of facing myself in the morning light , followed by a swift but burnished appearance on a TV arts review programme later that day , that had caused me to wake up damp and thudding . |
| 15 | Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy . |
| 16 | When I had finished I took off my coat and hung it on a nail . |
| 17 | Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle . |
| 18 | I felt the spiritual strength that had deserted me flowing back as a warm glow that welled up inside , filling my being . |
| 19 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |