Example sentences of "i [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 2 | ‘ They told me little James 's coat was around his head , ’ Kevin claimed . |
| 3 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
| 4 | I have a Series III 2,25 diesel and would like an engine that will give me better performance but maintain economy . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 6 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll miss you though , Kate , you 've kept me together body and soul since I lost Mandy . |
| 8 | ‘ You and me together Mo ? |
| 9 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 10 | What I most relish is the thought of me , eight hours through the treatment , rushing blindly to a meeting at the BBC , hair sodden , stinky and moving around of its own accord . |
| 11 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 12 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 13 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |
| 14 | It was blowing a gale , am I right Dick ? |
| 15 | How that 's done I do n't know how do we reach these people there 's a broad sheet that goes to the school 's am I right Jan ? |
| 16 | When I 'm round Jimmy I right Kevin . |
| 17 | So I eventually gorr it out the way , but I would n't like to gerr into that position again . |
| 18 | They are not indeed , like proper names , unmeaning ; for the words sensation of white signify , that the sensation which I so denominate resembles other sensations which I remember to have had before , and to have called by that name . |
| 19 | And then I all morning have me dinner , Arf 's done the dinner and have me Christmas dinner and then go to sleep all afternoon . |
| 20 | Erm I personally sir did not detect any double negative there . |
| 21 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |
| 22 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 23 | I only order water when I 'm not paying . |
| 24 | The young men of my own age twirling their canes , pushing into one another sideways , tilting one another 's hats , made me angry — was it because they at least had achieved contentment , and I only contempt ? |
| 25 | No , I just I just question . |
| 26 | Well I just kind of was running round the shop because I was |
| 27 | I 've been trying to think what we what the n whether it was D Company or C Company but I ca n't recall , that was the Company , that was , I just D Company of the er South Staffs of the whole Walsall area you see , that was D Company . |
| 28 | This profile is for samples that I just north of South Georgia in the south Atlantic in nineteen eighty six . |
| 29 | Well sometimes , but sometimes I just pickpocket it 's much easier that way . |
| 30 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |