Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 32 | When I eventually reached the gods I hesitated , afraid to push the door open , but after a couple of minutes I became too frightened to stand there in the dark any longer . |
| 33 | Anyway , I became as drunk as a vicar . |
| 34 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 35 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 36 | A former AE of a major futures bucket shop here recalls using hard sell techniques on a visiting client : " One day , he came to lunch with me , and I became quite drunk while he stayed determinedly sober . |
| 37 | I learned how to put up wallpaper — I became quite expert at it ! |
| 38 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 39 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 40 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 41 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 42 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 43 | I became really angry at this very obvious silence . |
| 44 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 45 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 46 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 47 | I became really scared and then he started walking towards me . |
| 48 | It also meant that I became much more familiar with the area I lived in and the people around . ’ |
| 49 | One man described his experience of depression in this way : ‘ Early in the crisis I became deeply aware that God was my ally . |
| 50 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 51 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 52 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 53 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 54 | I became so worried that we went to our G.P. and after several visits he suggested an allergy to cows milk : so we tried a milk free diet ( its harder than you think once you start looking at contents labels ) . |
| 55 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 56 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 57 | But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room . |
| 58 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 59 | I do n't know how I became so enthusiastic ! |
| 60 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |