Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up feel rough , er , did you mix it ? |
| 2 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 3 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 4 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 5 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 6 | This morning I woke up to discover another major British engineering company expected to require 5,000 fewer workers . |
| 7 | On the first morning I woke up feeling great , like a kid , stretched my arms and thought , Now I 'll have a cup of tea and stroll out for a Then it hit me . " |
| 8 | I woke up feeling better . |
| 9 | I came in to do some work — I could n't sleep . |
| 10 | I dropped by to make sure everything was OK after that difficult calving and I find another vet here . |
| 11 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 12 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 13 | I set out to put that right , but the harder I tried , the more I failed . ’ |
| 14 | A few years ago , John Cook and I set out to examine this effect quantitatively . |
| 15 | I never really consciously set out to do war photography ; I set out to do political photography , international politics and a lot of that revolves around conflict . |
| 16 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 17 | I set about researching conventional wisdom for clues . |
| 18 | I get up to watch that now cos I , and The Rut , The Rug Rats , the little baby and his , I think that 's so funny . |
| 19 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 20 | I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . |
| 21 | On the third night in New York I settled down to watch one of those TV programmes where relaxed , informal chatter had been perfected by hours of intensive rehearsal . |
| 22 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 23 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 24 | As I told Denny d'Arcy , the Sidcombe manager , when I rang up to say good riddance , ‘ We are just the amoeba on the European footer lake . |
| 25 | I rang back to make sure he had n't fainted ! |
| 26 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 27 | I looked up to make sure I was still in the land of waking people , same people , the everyday world of ham-and-tomato sandwiches … |
| 28 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 29 | I go out to work this morning at nine o'clock , I come back , I open the kitchen door , four o'clock this afternoon walk into my kitchen empty ! |
| 30 | I go down to make some tea . |