Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 2 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 3 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 4 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 5 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 6 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 7 | The reception for visiting supporters was so different that I would like to comment . |
| 8 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 9 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |
| 10 | ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket . |
| 11 | If the hon. Member for Fife , Central dislikes the idea of reviews , it suggests that his attitude to public expenditure is less rigorous than I would have expected . |
| 12 | It would be much easier if I could do that informally . ’ |
| 13 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 14 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 15 | " The Ryder Cup means so much that I 'd play on one leg if I had to . " |
| 16 | It distressed me so much that I used to keep indoors and go out only in case of necessity . ’ |
| 17 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |
| 18 | Yes , now I would n't slur those quite so much as I would make that all legato . |
| 19 | For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so . |
| 20 | As English Captain I am obviously delighted that I will have access one more time to the cream of the young talent who will turn pro in 1992 and in the future . |
| 21 | I think that was why Uncle Hamish had been so delighted when I 'd come to stay with the family , and also — perhaps — why he was in no hurry to help effect a reconciliation between me and my father . |
| 22 | They 're working ever so hard and I must say they were good , you know , erm , cos they have n't finished the job yet , but erm , I think they know what there about you know , and they 've certainly got a lot of energy and it 's a hard job . . |
| 23 | ‘ Your colouring is so unusual that I 'd have thought you 'd have got quite used to answering that question by now ! ’ |
| 24 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 25 | And she said so many chairs are so deep that my legs are dangling , she said whereas this one , it 's so comfortable and I can get my feet on the floor . |
| 26 | But I decided against it , not entirely sure that I 'd like the answer . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 28 | How much better if I could have introduced myself as a fellow poet ! |
| 29 | ‘ Cup rugby would also have appealed to me , but I 'm not so sure that I would have been so enthusiastic about playing in a league , ’ Cranmer says . |
| 30 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |