Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another number , ‘ That Would n't Be You ’ , was replaced by ‘ Is This Where I Wake Up ? ’ , sung by Crawford , Diana Quick and the dancers , who included Suzanne Danielle and Jo-Anne Robinson , who subsequently became the star 's secretary and girlfriend . |
| 2 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 3 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … |
| 4 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … = The Aymarians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |
| 5 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 6 | ‘ One of my parts is very much on the marketing side and this has actually flourished and the demands on my time for giving talks and presentations all over the world at very high levels has become more demanding than I 've ever known before . ’ |
| 7 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 8 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 9 | It would be wrong if I did not correct the inaccuracies that are contained within the letter . |
| 10 | But if he 's wrong I mean you ca n't just come back and be contentious if you 're wrong cos I mean otherwise you know it 's , it 's of no pr of no work . |
| 11 | Is it OK if I leave now ? ’ |
| 12 | These thoughts lead quickly to avoidance of the feared situation and include , ‘ I 'll be OK if I run home now ’ , ‘ Get away and you 'll be all right ’ . |
| 13 | Some usherettes could n't carry the icecream trays : ‘ I ca n't do it , Mr Norden , I come over funny if I walk backwards . ’ |
| 14 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 15 | It feels no different cos I have n't got anything left . |
| 16 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 17 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 18 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 19 | I think that 's funny cos I do n't know which is which though . |
| 20 | There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it |
| 21 | I said well I 'm afraid if I do n't , I said , I do n't do it ! |
| 22 | I mean interesting because I 've never actually done the job that you 're doing . |
| 23 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 24 | And although the sub-text of my increasing thinness ( which I chose to ignore ) read , ‘ I am doing this because I feel so helpless that not even my own body belongs to me ’ , the apparent text read to me , and increasingly to others , ‘ My body is my own and I can do what I like with it . ’ |
| 25 | you ca n't show this because I did n't put a bra on |
| 26 | I was very unhappy after this because I did not want to be apart from my Momma . |
| 27 | I , I thought it was quite fu erm , funny because I got back to erm the flats this afternoon |
| 28 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 29 | In fact , in some ways it 's a lot easier because I 've only got myself to think of these days . |
| 30 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |