Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked straight out , without greeting or preliminaries . |
| 2 | I made , I made then up |
| 3 | At the end of the month I crept back round to John D.Wood to explain that the ninety pounds would not be forthcoming and they should feel free to place the property back on the market . |
| 4 | In the end I crept back up to my room . |
| 5 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 6 | But she lived higher up and I lived lower down . |
| 7 | I rode home along with him : he never used to charge me nothing because I used to deliver these here up to the shops for him . |
| 8 | I got slowly out of bed . |
| 9 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 10 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 11 | Still stuck on the track within sight of Janice Rae 's flat , I got up out of my seat , took down my bag and fished out the file mum had brought from the house . |
| 12 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 13 | I got straight through to my brother at the number Ruth gave me , of the hospital in Carlisle . |
| 14 | Cross and sore , I got straight back on and trotted him into the fence again . |
| 15 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 16 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 17 | Somehow I got back up and completed the climb — but by the time I hobbled and shuffled back to the sacks , the sun was already casting its final , blood red spotlight on Cloggy 's slabs and buttresses . |
| 18 | So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem . |
| 19 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 20 | I left home at half-past nine and I got back about half-past ten . ’ |
| 21 | And I swam straight in . |
| 22 | As was found throughout the war , there was an increased interest in private reading ( partly due to blackout conditions ) , and , as I found early on , an increasing public for current affairs as well as for music and poetry . |
| 23 | I moved back in with my Grandfather , changing schools once again and seeing my Mom at week-ends . |
| 24 | This was no more than bravado since I charged blindly on . |
| 25 | I skimped once back in ‘ thirty-four . |
| 26 | I wandered back up to the station concourse . |
| 27 | Allan Scuffle ( or scuffling Allan ) gave me a frank grin and handshake , and I wandered back down to the Liffey . |
| 28 | It was much darker under the trees now and , afraid of not reaching the village before nightfall , I branched off on to what I thought was a short-cut . |
| 29 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 30 | I I mentioned earlier on that bonuses are paid at proof stage . |