Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 2 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 3 | Apart from anything else , coffee is not drunk by the Chinese , which makes me very glad I bought my packets of Nescafe , and rather annoyed that I did n't bring more , as I have already used up more than a third of my coffee . |
| 4 | It was all carefully arranged and rather neat and I felt reasonably satisfied with myself . |
| 5 | ‘ God , you 're a lot of trouble , I could get along so easy and so nice if I did n't have you on my tail ’ , ‘ You crazy fool … blubbering like a baby ? |
| 6 | Right alongside were the bows of a ship ; they seemed enormous and so close that I thought the bilge water would splash on our deck . |
| 7 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 8 | She is smaller and less intimidating than I had imagined her . |
| 9 | It is less imposing and less impressive than I expected and is bordered by similarly styled ‘ cabins ’ . |
| 10 | Close up , he looked softer and less fit than I had thought , not so much rugby as darts . |
| 11 | I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined . |
| 12 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 13 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 14 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 15 | Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice . |
| 16 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 17 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 18 | Miss Graham , 27 , from Wimbledon , South London , said : ‘ I was stunned and absolutely delighted when I heard Nigel had called . |
| 19 | ‘ Father Poole became very excited when I mentioned your name , and very annoyed when I told him I had let you go . |
| 20 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 21 | I am wet but utterly unharmed and I enjoyed it . ’ |
| 22 | It was a good hotel — but more expensive than I had intended : next day I must arrange everything . |
| 23 | I was definitely pleased , but vaguely uneasy when I discovered that he did n't have a black rim around his neck . |
| 24 | ‘ It was really tough but very enjoyable and I learnt a lot . |