Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 7 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 8 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 9 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 10 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 11 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 12 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 13 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 14 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 15 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 16 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 17 | I choked back the tears and mumbled that I was glad I 'd had cancer . |
| 18 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 19 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 20 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 21 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I stammered out a fairly acceptable reason for declining their invitation to make a personal appearance at the songs premiere , and very shortly Mala and I were back on our ship as Posi took us off-planet , with much relief all round . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On the day after my arrival at Bletchley , I heard a Scottish voice and , being a little homesick , I sought out the owner . |
| 26 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 27 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 28 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 29 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 30 | 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 . |