Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 2 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 3 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 4 | But presumably I can put a mouse driver in later ? |
| 5 | Presumably I can also write to John Gummer saying is dead good . |
| 6 | Okay presumably I should put something again in the newsletter about conference and this accommodation thing . |
| 7 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 8 | Erm and they look quite good , but irritatingly I could have done with them , after the first workshop . |
| 9 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 10 | When I have it badly I ca n't stand up without vomiting , my vision is distorted , my speech is slurred and the pain in my head is almost unbearable . ’ |
| 11 | How can you chat about it like this when I 'm holding you and when I want to kiss you and make love to you so badly I ca n't even think of anything else ! ’ |
| 12 | I had no idea what life with a baby would be like and no idea how well or badly I would I would cope . |
| 13 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I am teaching a little I would find too many things wrong . ’ |
| 15 | See , right if he still was n't speaking to me properly I would n't have brought that off him ! |
| 16 | Yeah , well I du n no , do it all properly I must do all my bits and pieces tonight , I have n't done them this week , oh let's have a look at the poll tax , because I thought there was one more , I 'm sure there is |
| 17 | Additionally I might have info about further education and job opportunities , plus business contacts . |
| 18 | And I think the most I 'll get out of it , at least for a few years , is local portrait photography . |
| 19 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
| 20 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 21 | ‘ It was the most I could imagine . ’ |
| 22 | He said , ‘ So the most I can hope for would be to be at home on a respirator full-time ? ’ |
| 23 | The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting . |
| 24 | People are sending in some really bad , obviously made-up scores : 9 million on Turrican — the most I can manage is 2 million and that 's by visiting every section and standing at the edge of the cascade , blasting everything . |
| 25 | Not a lot of money , but the most I can pay for any given commodity . |
| 26 | ‘ The most I can do is say , ‘ This is what GPs are thinking ’ . ’ |
| 27 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 28 | For the next hour or thereabouts I shall be at the Burgers ’ house in Wood Lane . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then , my lord , gladly I 'll come back with you . |
| 30 | When I got the invitation , I said ‘ Well , gladly I will accept . ’ |