Example sentences of "i [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 3 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 4 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 5 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 6 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 7 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 8 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 9 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 10 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop |
| 11 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 12 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 13 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 14 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 15 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 16 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 17 | I hated sitting in a classroom all day . |
| 18 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 19 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 21 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
| 22 | I began walking along the track leading behind the beach towards the village , which was marked by the red tin roof of a tiny church showing above the casuarinas and palm trees . |
| 23 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 24 | These beliefs were reinforced when , as a practising hypnotherapist , I began working in the field of regression therapy in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 26 | I enjoyed working with the outside tradesmen . |
| 27 | I enjoyed working with the children . |
| 28 | I enjoyed sitting on the hatch in the twilight with the crew , listening to their talk , a combination of profanity and sense . |
| 29 | Putting that aside , I enjoyed playing with the various contraptions which was both fun and time filling ( during boring lunch hours ! ) |
| 30 | ‘ Surprisingly I enjoyed going to the ladies ’ sewing circle , with Matey , ’ wrote Sally-Anne in her journal . |