Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 2 | The 35-year-old , who has collected 13 major trophies with the Anfield club , said : ‘ I have slowly realised that I am not in Liverpool 's plans for the future . ’ |
| 3 | Well , you 'd better come in , unless you 'd rather wait until I 'm dressed ? ’ |
| 4 | There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’ |
| 5 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 6 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 7 | I suddenly realized that I was going mad too , that he was wickedly wickedly cunning . |
| 8 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 9 | On my way out of the shed , I suddenly realised that I was not on my own . |
| 10 | At lunchtime the aid started going off and I suddenly realised that I was n't going to get through the afternoon — ’ |
| 11 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 12 | Many years ago I was taking notes in a legal matter and only realised when I was transcribing them that police commissioner and police constable have the same initials . |
| 13 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 14 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 15 | The spelling mistakes only occurred when I was shouted . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do n't suppose she 'll be doing much painting while I 'm here . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 18 | Just prior to this I was under a great deal of pressure to complete a computer program , and went in to work while I was suffering from the flu and not sleeping very well . |
| 19 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 20 | But , of course , he only wakes when I 'm asleep . |
| 21 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 22 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Only wait till I 'm safely dead first ! |
| 24 | ‘ It just so happens that I am . ’ |
| 25 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 26 | He was going to leave it tonight it just so happens that I 'm courting tonight |
| 27 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 28 | They have apparently agreed that I 'm simple-minded . |
| 29 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd better move if I 'm going to go back and change . ’ |