Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another thing-if I ca n't keep my works here , where am I gon na jack up ? ’ |
| 2 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had more of this than I can take . ’ |
| 4 | She is asthmatic so I would very much like to get in touch with people who have had experience of an asthmatic child . |
| 5 | ‘ I was orphaned so I could n't carry on studying . |
| 6 | Well you could n't have anybody more careful than me could you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though it was easier than I could have hoped , my pride and self-pity would not admit it . |
| 9 | Her Edmund ( who lives in Rome ) is more distinguished than I could ever be , and she was never so humble as her Emily . |
| 10 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 11 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 12 | It 's a bit too complicated to explain right now but it 's really unavoidable so I wo n't be able to ride out tomorrow . |
| 13 | But this if I may pick up on the point Mr made , how then do you assess the environmental impact of what you 're proposing if you do n't actually know where it 's going to go ? |
| 14 | So these are all factors in here which er the the Well first of all the general public was provided with a a synopsis of this if I can put it that way in that the en original consultation leaflet included er extracts from this , summaries of it er in the leaflet , er and that set out clearly the differing traffic effects of the outer northern relief road compared with the inner . |
| 15 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 16 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 17 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
| 18 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 19 | I mean a , I 'm a little bit different cos I would , I 'd you know me , I do n't like putting money in anything cos I I do n't like to lose money through a a lost cause sort of thing . |
| 20 | It would be much easier if I could do that informally . ’ |
| 21 | It would have been easier if I could have discussed it with Karen . |
| 22 | I think life would be easier if I could live with my husband who , because of his own professional commitments is in Cambridge every week . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's extremely doubtful if I 'll ever find another comet , ’ declares Alcock . |
| 24 | It was funny cos I could hear them talking and I was really sort of like |
| 25 | The windscreen was full of horrible light , and I knew we must be crashing because I could see the wheel spinning in John 's hand … ’ |
| 26 | I shall be generous because I shall exclude the right hon. Member for Conwy ( Sir W. Roberts ) , who is not here . |
| 27 | Well those people I 've , who are here , erm I 'm told by Dr and I 'll read this because I ca n't understand it myself political processes , please remember he says that tutorials for part three commence next Monday and Tuesday the twenty first and twenty second but papers for only two of the seven groups are currently in the folders . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was 16 and modelling , I got very interested because I used to see a lot of Geminis and Libras who had a lot in common , ’ says Teri . |
| 29 | Foolish because I may know the answer already and just be testing you . |
| 30 | I 'm going to have to be careful because I shall be flying quite low . |