StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	‘ 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 .
3	It 's a trick I never learnt .
4	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 ’ .
5	And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week .
6	I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’
7	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 .
8	‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says .
9	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 .
10	‘ 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 .
11	Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum .
12	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 .
13	I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good .
14	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 .
15	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 .
16	no , and any case I just remembered Nicola 's was only hundred and sixty .
17	In this case I usually get them running round for a while jumping , hopping , walking backwards and also get them to shout some calls .
18	This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously .
19	‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich .
20	Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian .
21	Whenever I speak of it , he just says it can stay as it is in case I ever want it .
22	The only case I ever get .
23	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 .
24	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 .
25	I resisted the temptation to analyse the results until all information had been gathered in case I sub-consciously distorted the data-gathering process .
26	In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier .
27	When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness .
28	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 .
29	The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed .
30	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 .