Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 2 | Slowly I leave the land 's hard lights behind , |
| 3 | Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall . |
| 4 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 5 | Eventually I reached the cliff top . |
| 6 | Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it . |
| 7 | Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass . |
| 8 | Eventually I struck the compromise . |
| 9 | Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues . |
| 10 | Eventually I walked the night away , twice hiding in the ditch of the old Glencoe road as lagerlout cars — I could hear their maleficent approach down the glen — tyre-screeched past . |
| 11 | I 'm totally left-handed , but eventually I learned the bottleneck style used by blues singers . |
| 12 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | I have most of them already and besides I enjoy the reputation of being the best teacher . |
| 14 | The glassy grain of water looking upward I see the bed |
| 15 | From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular . |
| 16 | Would you rather I left the room ? ’ |
| 17 | With only me to represent the practice — ’ she shrugged . |
| 18 | It 's only me letting the side down , ’ Michael Banks volunteered nobly . |
| 19 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 20 | Suddenly I sensed the ground disappear and for seconds we were airborne . |
| 21 | Suddenly I felt the change of temperature . |
| 22 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 23 | And however much I hated the idea , sooner or later I would have to tell somebody about it — Toby , perhaps either the truth or a lie I would have to tell , because I could n't any longer pretend it was nobody 's business but mine . |
| 24 | I had to come , however much I hated the idea . |
| 25 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 26 | and you 've basically I think the mistake you made basically was |
| 27 | Gently I lifted the ledger and placed it , still open , on the table . |
| 28 | Naturally I welcome the fact that the reforms are revealing the extent of NHS underfunding , but this will only be of benefit if you acknowledge what is happening and do something about it . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , naturally I miss the work . |
| 30 | In fact I think oddly enough I think the way that the Daily Mirror Trustees are now organised with postal balance and representatives classes , I think you know is almost a model now of how a set of trustees should run , you know , they but they have got a very good scheme of how they do actually elect their trustees from various groups of of members . |