Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 2 | ‘ I have not decided whether to appeal because I have not yet officially been informed as to why I have been fined ’ he said . |
| 3 | I happened to mention that I did n't much like my sister 's husband . |
| 4 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 5 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 6 | I have to say that I look pretty damn good . |
| 7 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 8 | I had to stop and I felt really physically very unwell . |
| 9 | Well I do n't mind , well I mean this is a horrible thing to say but I do n't necessarily mind people robbing from the rich but when it 's poor people robbing from the poor , it 's a really wank off , really wanky thing to do , you know , I just think it 's disgusting . |
| 10 | They were too tired to notice as I crept out again . |
| 11 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 12 | Well when Margaret suggested er doing a project on French polishing , I had to admit that I did n't really know what French polishing was . |