Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender . |
| 2 | When it came closer I jumped out of the way but it cut the bottom of my trousers . |
| 3 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 4 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 5 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
| 6 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 7 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 8 | " When you went away I came down here and read " |
| 9 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 10 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 11 | Failure abounded so I waded in — ‘ Leave it to me , Sir ! ’ |
| 12 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 13 | lifting a sheet of corrugated iron which the farmer had ready I rushed in among the little pigs . |
| 14 | She said so I went back and got my purse . |
| 15 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
| 16 | I said well I get up early . |