Example sentences of "i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hell , if I was really lucky he might stop talking to me altogether , I thought … but that did n't seem likely . |
| 32 | And I tell you she 's got a different contract with me altogether . |
| 33 | May I add to those representations the ones that have been made to me locally by committees responsible for organising the summer common riding festivals in the central Borders and Scotland ? |
| 34 | ‘ You listen to this , ’ said my sister to me crossly . |
| 35 | She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table . |
| 36 | ‘ Have you been invited to tea ? ’ she asked me crossly . |
| 37 | In fact , he irritates me intensely sometimes . |
| 38 | ‘ It sounds to me intensely cruel . |
| 39 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 40 | Impels me onward through the glowing orbs |
| 41 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 42 | What impressed me most was the support the boot gave — almost like a ski boot but with no compromise of movement or sensation of cramping . |
| 43 | Father Andrew , the saintly co-founder of the Society of the Divine Compassion , wrote to one of his many correspondents : ‘ To me it is one of me most hopeful things of this epoch that it has produced C. S. Lewis . ’ |
| 44 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 45 | What bothered me most after my long absence were the forests of TV aerials on even the humblest dwellings . |
| 46 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 47 | Yes , but in the end it is always the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces that moves me most . |
| 48 | It was the reaction to my answers that interested me most . |
| 49 | But it was meditation that puzzled and eluded me most . |
| 50 | What angered me most was the Gulag searchlight exposure of oncoming vehicles . |
| 51 | ‘ What struck me most was that everybody in America smiles all the time . |
| 52 | The person who annoyed me most was Tony Paignton . |
| 53 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 54 | But the thing that impressed me most was the friendship between the rabbi and the rector . |
| 55 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 56 | This followed the technique of the book which had helped me most in my early years — R. Grant Brown 's Half the Battle in Burmese . |
| 57 | These included the restoration of Scottish peerages forfeited after the rebellion of '45 , the continuation of the Scottish currency , and — to me most dramatic and romantic of all — his discovering in a locked box in Edinburgh Castle the ancient regalia of Scotland ; the crown and sceptre and sword of state with which the kings of Scotland had always been crowned , and which had last been used at the coronation of Charles II at Scone . |
| 58 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 59 | As I remember , the three adjectives applied to me most consistently throughout my early childhood were ‘ clever ’ , ‘ good ’ , and ‘ healthy ’ . |
| 60 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |