Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
| 2 | If you lend me some to tide me over . ’ |
| 3 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 4 | I went to the National Gallery and offered to sell the two Paul Klees I had carried with me , to tide me over . |
| 5 | I will have wages to tide me over initially . ’ |
| 6 | A little to tide me over , I gather . ’ |
| 7 | It would n't be much , but would maybe tide me over till I could find something better . |
| 8 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 9 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
| 10 | It 's a trick I never learnt . |
| 11 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 12 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 13 | I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 16 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not just the football , it 's a nice town and it 's a nice day out ; if we went out of existence I just would n't know where to turn . |
| 18 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 19 | In accordance with Clause 2 sub-clause 3 of the Conditions of Contract I hereby authorise my Acting Depute Director ( Projects ) or his successor to act on my behalf generally in respect of this Contract . |
| 20 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 21 | Outgoings will vary but in my own case I already know that for gas , water and the poll tax I shall need an extra £132 . |
| 22 | In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back . |
| 23 | no , and any case I just remembered Nicola 's was only hundred and sixty . |
| 24 | In this case I usually get them running round for a while jumping , hopping , walking backwards and also get them to shout some calls . |
| 25 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 26 | ‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich . |
| 27 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 28 | Whenever I speak of it , he just says it can stay as it is in case I ever want it . |
| 29 | The only case I ever get . |
| 30 | On this part of the case I respectfully agree with the observations of Lord Donaldson M.R. , at p. 325f , in the Court of Appeal and of Neill L.J. , at p. 328f . |