Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 32 | I resisted the temptation to analyse the results until all information had been gathered in case I sub-consciously distorted the data-gathering process . |
| 33 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 34 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 35 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 36 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 37 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
| 38 | Erm that 's something I 've got er before I arrived here today in all honesty I probably would have said yes . |
| 39 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 40 | I mean there 's no excuse I all the jobs are quite quickly done are n't they ? |
| 41 | Chairman I honestly do not have an indication of the final amount of costs , this often happens with consultancy work , it 's like answering the question how long is a piece of string , you do n't know until you 've reached the end of it . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 43 | About nationalisation I never had any doubt . |
| 44 | As an arthritis sufferer I often find it a strain using the latch tool for casting off . |
| 45 | I drank fears like wormwood , yea , made myself drunken with bitterness ; for my ever-shaping and distrustful mind still mingled gall-drops , till out of the cup of hope I almost poisoned myself with despair … |
| 46 | The prize of five hundred pounds helped me start my business and as well as meeting the Prince I now send an outfit to the young princes every year . |
| 47 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |
| 48 | We both knew that if you draw — or more likely have drawn for you — lane I then you stand no chance . |
| 49 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 50 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 51 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 52 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 53 | you know in the er first year with Miss I genuinely wrote this thing right . |
| 54 | erm mushrooms cabbage and everything 's raw , completely raw carrots in th in the middle with two different two mayonnaise dips one plai s plain mayonnaise and the other half of it is erm garlic flavour mayonnaise and erm that 's as a starter I always have that and I thoroughly enjoy it you know that 's the by the time I 've had that I do n't want much of my main meal cos it 's great |
| 55 | I 'm the other spaceman , I got hairs on my chest I never get depressed . |
| 56 | I 'll pick out the points cos I 'm gon na send it to anyway to say that th y'know I personally think two hours is too much for me . |
| 57 | I 'm the Project Manager for the United Kingdom er for the Eurofighter two thousand project at the international level I also chair the N E F M O board of directors . |
| 58 | Even though I am used to playing at a higher level I still feel under pressure when I entered county cricket , so I needed the guys to rally round . ’ |
| 59 | Among them is Boethius ( 480–524 ) , whose lovely prayer I regularly use ; |
| 60 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |