Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 2 | I thus contented myself by saying simply : |
| 3 | Maybe I just fooled myself into thinking Hambury was the name , I ca n't remember now . |
| 4 | I already hate myself for having taken the job , I know it was a mistake . |
| 5 | It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore . |
| 6 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 7 | A few days later , from the bleak room of a grimy hotel , the rain pouring down outside the window , he surveyed his surroundings and wrote forlornly : ‘ Theo , I never suspected her , nor do I now , nor shall I ever suspect her of having had financial motives , more than is honest and just . |
| 8 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 9 | I also join him in deprecating the attack on my noble Friend Lord Jenkin , who has accepted an appointment on a trust . |
| 10 | I also join him in paying tribute to Alick Buchanan-Smith who was a personal friend of mine , as he was of so many , and who was an outstanding parliamentarian and Minister , and to the courage of George Buckley . |
| 11 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 12 | May I also thank him for agreeing to visit Rugby and Kenilworth ? |
| 13 | I also congratulate him on winning The Spectator 's Back Bencher of the Year award . |
| 14 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 15 | The choice of hi-hats and cymbals is excellent , and I often use it for programming percussion . ’ |
| 16 | I even suspected him of having an affair . |
| 17 | I sometimes amuse myself by trying , in the street or in a supermarket , to get a smile from some particularly hard face . |
| 18 | I readily join him in paying tribute to the remarkable achievements of the academic and other staff in those institutions of higher education in terms of the wonderful opportunities that they are offering to more and more of our young people and to people of all ages . |
| 19 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 20 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 21 | ‘ I never thanked you for taking me out today , ’ she said quietly , looking up at him . |
| 22 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 23 | But I do n't just go in one shop , and I never buy anything without looking at the price . |