Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go on say I 'm a Swede ! |
| 2 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 3 | I do n't know what it was , the mist , the way it hung , hot and heavy like a blanket , the weirdness and the exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast , but I suddenly realised I was scared . |
| 4 | I only realised I was still suffering from ME after my doctor referred me to a psychiatrist . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm realistic enough to know I 'm going to have good days and bad ones . |
| 6 | I must have fallen asleep , for I dreamed that a girl was kissing me open-mouthed , the touch of her tongue light as a butterfly , and her hand caressing , and I woke suddenly to find I was thoroughly roused . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , it so happens I 'm going to town in the morning , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 10 | She went on : ‘ I felt I 'd only believe I was pregnant when I could see it . |
| 11 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 12 | I only know I 'm afraid when I leave you ; when you are out of sight , I feel lost , lonely . ’ |
| 13 | I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . " |
| 14 | Because I found historical films about men on horseback so moving I was pleased when my then wife , Jenni , set to writing a book about the wild west . |
| 15 | I can only hope I am proved wrong : things have gone too far to turn back the tide . |
| 16 | He did so hope I was enjoying myself . |
| 17 | He did so hope I was not bored with country life . |
| 18 | I only discovered I was in it by sheer chance . |
| 19 | Perhaps changing some people 's old and dated views so that soon when other young women undoubtedly become pregnant they will be protected from what I personally find I am going through . |
| 20 | ‘ You may not realize it , young man , ’ said Barrie , witheringly , ‘ but in so doing I was breaking the law . |
| 21 | ‘ You only thought I was . |
| 22 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 23 | I remember leaving a ledge to abseil down Scafell 's East Buttress once only to realise I was falling out of control ; I had forgotten to clip my figure of eight descendeur into my harness . |
| 24 | ‘ She was a friend of a friend — I had n't even known she was coming , but one look and I was arrogant enough to decide I was going to make her mine . |
| 25 | I felt — it was as if I suddenly knew I was going to die and I was nothing , just sand and dust blowing away . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I only knew I was playing when we had our warm-up just before the kick-off , and I simply was n't prepared for starting the match . |
| 27 | ‘ They obviously thought I was doing terribly badly at that time and were very pleased at how well they had rigged me out … until I put on the mac . |
| 28 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 29 | Mind , I suppose if I were the sort of person you obviously think I am I would have known about your predilection for pretty girls — and your low boredom threshold , ’ she said scathingly . |
| 30 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |