Example sentences of "[adv] i [adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year on I actually can . |
| 2 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 3 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 4 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 5 | Deep down I really could n't believe anyone found me attractive . |
| 6 | Perhaps I really should kiss him . |
| 7 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 8 | I still had it in the wardrobe so I just used to . |
| 9 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 10 | Excellent so you 've already got percentages sorted out there , can we just look at the next block of words , and hello , hello , right , no , yeah well I , yes I I think it all went great , unfortunately erm , so I really ca n't really consider on , on that . |
| 11 | Oh dear , he was what would you say , I do n't know He liked the kind of ballads , er he was a more a kind of bay he liked a ballad , so I really could n't tell you who was his favourite singer or anything like that , just if a song interested him he just |
| 12 | So I really can say I 've been Cake-Maker to the king ! |
| 13 | So I perhaps could get |
| 14 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |
| 15 | Anyway I obviously wo n't act without the endorsement of everybody else — comments are welcome . |
| 16 | but I ca n't see the point of doing vinyl on that anyway I really can not . |
| 17 | Well it 's a case , I 've got to get rid of that thing cos I can not just I just can not afford fifteen quid a day petrol ! |
| 18 | Oh I just I just could n't tell you really what |
| 19 | I love him like nothing else in my life , but Paula and I had been together when we were all planning Project Eden , before I even met Sam , and I loved her too , and somehow I just could n't stop seeing her … . ’ |
| 20 | Usually I too would grab a setting-stick and Bill would instruct me as to the fount best suited to the job . |
| 21 | Whether they , you know financially we 'd be better off or worse off I really could n't say . |
| 22 | Second , Iago 's terrible silence once his deceptions have been exposed : ‘ Demand me nothing , what you know , you know , /From this time forth I never will speak word ’ ( V.ii.304f. ) : this refusal of language is the logical outcome of the destructive egoism with which Iago has put himself outside , and in his own eyes above , society . |
| 23 | no , no badly but like I just used to think he was so much more chatty than , we just used to sit there and go alright we 'd get off with each other then we 'd break like , you know like try , you 'd , like the conversation |
| 24 | I could n't back to , like I always used to have two erm but oh I could n't go back to that ! |
| 25 | ‘ I was quite lucky to get my degree , had I gone up a year later I probably would n't have done . |
| 26 | Ah , but that 's not the point , I wo , if they take him back I still should n't be allowed to train him . |
| 27 | Often I just ca n't fit everything in . |
| 28 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 30 | But now I really can not justify repacking them and squirrelling them away for another 40 years . |