Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 2 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 3 | Ask yourself the question ‘ What do I want out of life ? ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 5 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 6 | Oh yeah very good I mean round of applause everybody come on . |
| 7 | Just I mean out of interest the reason why I did n't take Sheffield |
| 8 | By the riverbank in the warm afternoon sunlight I meandered back to Church Bridge and Dent . |
| 9 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 10 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 11 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 12 | By the way , I met up with John Collins the other day and he and I were signing your praises . |
| 13 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 14 | ‘ I met up wi' Alfred Carter , ’ Ernest said . |
| 15 | I mean , I sold up around West Hill you said many a time , how we think that 's |
| 16 | I sit up in bed and swing my legs to the floor . |
| 17 | My hair sticks to it when I sit up in bed . |
| 18 | I sit up in bed and switch the light on , shaken awake by pure embarrassment . |
| 19 | I sit down with Paul Franklin every now and then and we swap licks — just basically show each other what we know . |
| 20 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 21 | Would I stay on at night to go over some sales figures ? |
| 22 | Did I stay out of loyalty to the priest , the human being , or was there something else that compelled me to remain there , when all the more ‘ Christian ’ elements had long ago fled ? |
| 23 | Then Clay and I rode out on horseback for a tour of the beautiful sage-covered landscape which seemed to stretch to Mexico . |
| 24 | Then , on 24th April , I rode out of Edinburgh to the north . |
| 25 | As I rode out of town , past the railway station and its ‘ Welcome to Prestatyn ’ message , to alighting holidaymakers , I could not help thinking that they certainly were . |
| 26 | Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh with the army . |
| 27 | After two weeks in Dunbar , Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh . |
| 28 | I checked in with Simon just after twelve . |
| 29 | As I checked in at Baghdad airport , I found that I had 100kg of excess baggage . |
| 30 | Anyway , Mr Middleditch came through once more and I got through to Lisabeth on Stuart Street . |