Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 2 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 3 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 4 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 5 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 6 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 7 | ‘ I agreed to move in with him just until my divorce came through and I insisted we married immediately after that . ’ |
| 8 | So I agreed to go along . |
| 9 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 10 | I agreed to go out to Passy . |
| 11 | It was only because they were short-handed that I agreed to help out and … ’ |
| 12 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 13 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 14 | So out of the kindness of my heart I agreed to come in . ’ |
| 15 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 16 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 17 | The builders said the work would take six weeks , so I planned to move in after this , at the end of July . |
| 18 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 19 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 20 | My principal inheritance was a justification for any irresponsibility I cared to indulge in thereafter . |
| 21 | until I got fixed up with a private job |
| 22 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 23 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 24 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 25 | When I got sent down , all through my sentence , the social worker kept coming to see us . |
| 26 | because , well I get paid off when the receivers come in , I was about three month out before I got sent back for and er the starting wage was , I think we actually got a wee rise , I think we were the only section that |
| 27 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 28 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 29 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 30 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |