Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act . |
| 3 | Ask Mr Swanson if he would be kind enough to see me here , as soon as possible . |
| 4 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 5 | There are no colours — it kinda bugs me out , I just feel so f—ing glad , so incredibly lucky , that I grew up in America . |
| 6 | ‘ At first he would get angry and only push me around . |
| 7 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 8 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 9 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 10 | I only got I only got |
| 11 | " Then had n't you better let me in ? " |
| 12 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 13 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 14 | You 'd better count me out . |
| 15 | But knowing how to make a fire might just save your life one day , so you 'd better watch me carefully in case you have to do this yourself . ’ |
| 16 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 17 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 18 | I only smoke I only smoke one cigarette a day . |
| 19 | So let me just check . |
| 20 | Okay , so let me just write that on the back , Monday to Friday and that 's nine to four thirty . |
| 21 | So let me just think . |
| 22 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 23 | So let me just give you two brief quotations from real press releases which I have , I 've got piles and piles of these things . |
| 24 | So let me past — the Darkfall 's still active ! ’ |
| 25 | Well we 're go , we 're going to a close , so let me finally ask you yo thi this , i if you wanted to reassert one Scottish tradition , either an old one or a new one , wha what would it be ? |
| 26 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 27 | okay cos they 'll all want some , they 'll all give me about ten P which is n't much |
| 28 | But Lewis insisted : ‘ There is n't enough money in Britain or America put together to buy me off . |
| 29 | He was also possessive ; he only allowed me out twice a week — Wednesday 's Youth Club and Thursday 's Sally Carmichael 's dancing class — and accompanied me to both ( pity he did n't come to the Cricket Lover 's Ball ) . |
| 30 | The weekend before that they only allowed me out one day overnight |