Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps where I 'm taking you is to the nearest police station … ’ |
| 3 | You , you could say , I 'm going to do all four walls together or I 'm going to do one wall at a time . |
| 4 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 5 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 6 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 7 | I wish I could make you happy , ’ he said , so sweetly and gently that I was ashamed of the laughter building up inside me , and of the thought , why he 's old enough to be my father . |
| 8 | ‘ Serious enough that I 'm following up on it . |
| 9 | I 'm sure the police would figure out quickly enough that I 'm hardly the criminal type . ’ |
| 10 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 11 | Much better than I am . " |
| 12 | A foot of honour better than I was |
| 13 | A foot of honour better than I was , |
| 14 | Better than I was , at any rate . ’ |
| 15 | I was going out and playing five nights a week and I realised I should be a hell of a lot better than I was . |
| 16 | I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’ |
| 17 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 18 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 19 | I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods . |
| 20 | So it is bread on both rods , except that I make a paste for the free-line rod so that I am still offering a bait on a weightless rig . |
| 21 | My attitude to doctors has been severely changed since then by having a kidney stone diagnosed as psychosomatic and ulcerative colitis as a stomach upset , so that I am far from reverential and have occasionally flirted with contempt unfairly . |
| 22 | Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance . |
| 23 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 24 | You may be sure that I have now placed a regular order with CRA St Albans , my local stockist , so that I am not disappointed in the future . |
| 25 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 26 | He tried to force his grin … he held his ground and the fear once again welled up inside me so that I was sick to my stomach . |
| 27 | So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening . |
| 28 | He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’ |
| 29 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 30 | So much so that I was totally unable to move . |