Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 2 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight . |
| 4 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 5 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |
| 6 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 7 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 10 | Chatterton unbent enough to ask me the question . |
| 11 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 12 | If you do then tell me the truth . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 14 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 15 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 16 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 17 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 18 | Erm you know it cos you 've just told me the |
| 19 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 20 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 21 | I said just give me the file on it . |
| 22 | I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works . |
| 23 | Mind yer , 'e likes ter give me the best , does my 'Arold . ’ |
| 24 | They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage . |
| 25 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 26 | a number of my staff have repeatedly asked me the question , what is a project engineer ? |