Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 3 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 4 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
| 5 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 6 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 7 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 8 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 9 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 10 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 11 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 12 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 13 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 14 | On the day after my arrival at Bletchley , I heard a Scottish voice and , being a little homesick , I sought out the owner . |
| 15 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 16 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 17 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 18 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 19 | ‘ You are probably right but , honest , when I checked out the beach last month the waves were only two feet high ! ’ |
| 20 | on this anyway I , I finally , I did n't like it at all , but now I 'd done , I have me feather back I 'm alright I was like deaf when I got up every morning . |
| 21 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 22 | ‘ I got out a ball gown to lend to a neighbour and found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I got out a pack of Old Favourites , lit one and fanned smoke through my nostrils . |
| 24 | I got out a handkerchief and began to wipe it off . |
| 25 | We looked at him , then at each other and finally I got out the lip salve and said ‘ OK , it 's showtime ! ’ and Kim said : ‘ Whatever do you mean ? ’ |
| 26 | I got out the bed at five and twenty to eleven and the curtains were still drawn and I thought oh my God ! |
| 27 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 28 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 29 | Erm , and then , I , I got out the room about er twenty to nine . |
| 30 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |