Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The other perceives , I merely imagine ; he suffers , I merely simulate his distress by letting myself be moved by what I imagine . |
| 32 | I merely doubt your willingness to go to it . |
| 33 | So I 'll leave that for you to play with and erm I better give your mum a shout because I should have gone by now . |
| 34 | The er I re , I better leave your magazine . |
| 35 | I 'll put all them in , I better put my queen in . |
| 36 | It 's so hot , I better take my coat off . |
| 37 | I better remember my tape recorder . |
| 38 | I better get my contact lenses in had n't I ? |
| 39 | I better get my jacket in n it . |
| 40 | Oh I better count my money again |
| 41 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 42 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 43 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 44 | As far as EuroDisney is concerned , I personally welcome its establishment in France . |
| 45 | I was particularly distressed when I personally sanctioned his return to operational flying after a short period as an instructor at an OTU . |
| 46 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 47 | It seems to soothe him if I gently scratch his body for him . |
| 48 | I gently prised my wrist free . |
| 49 | She did not resist as I gently opened her mouth . |
| 50 | I said , apologetically , ‘ It 's ridiculous , but I only remember our meeting once , after Oxford . |
| 51 | Agnes was nodding her head now , and as she did so she was thinking , I only hope your father does n't find him there when he comes back from one of his trips . |
| 52 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 53 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 54 | ‘ I never see him , I only hear his voice . |
| 55 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 56 | I only saw her sister . |
| 57 | Whilst I was in prison I only saw my daughter twice . |
| 58 | Do you think I only saw his Ba ? |
| 59 | ‘ You do an old man proud , cariad , ’ he said softly , ‘ I only wish your mother was here to see you today , she would have been so happy . ’ |
| 60 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |