Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at you , ’ my father said when I eventually came down in my dressing-gown to watch an old movie on the television that afternoon . |
| 3 | When I eventually reversed out of the hedge , I discovered that it was a bin-liner dancing in the breeze . |
| 4 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 5 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 6 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 7 | When I eventually arrived back at Duxford , I had exactly the same amount of fuel on board that I flew out with ! ’ |
| 8 | Anyway , I eventually caught up with him in Irkutsk which is central Siberia . |
| 9 | I eventually ended up on Live From The Palladium as one of comedy 's bright young hopes . ’ |
| 10 | And I eventually ended up with Jack Mason . ’ |
| 11 | I rather went on about it . |
| 12 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 13 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 14 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 15 | Even though the wind kept the tops cool , the sun was relentless , and I foolishly changed out of my breeches into shorts for the remainder of the route . |
| 16 | ‘ I only stepped in at Royalbion because you 'd been knocked out . |
| 17 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 18 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 20 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 21 | The tackle looked two-footed but Hirst argued : ‘ I only went in with one — my right foot scraped the ground . ’ |
| 22 | And I only went out with Jerry to make him jealous . ’ |
| 23 | I only found out about the Japanese this morning . |
| 24 | I only found out about you when I saw his car parked outside that night . ’ |
| 25 | I suddenly cottoned on to what he was up to , and I ran and fetched our short washing-line , the one my mum used for dusters and tea-cloths . |
| 26 | You see when Jane Pargeter told me , I suddenly looked round for Nicola at the party . |
| 27 | ‘ I suddenly got out of bed half naked . |
| 28 | If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit . |
| 29 | I thought you might panic if I suddenly loomed up beside you in the darkness . ’ |
| 30 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |