Example sentences of "i [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
| 2 | I have a Series III 2,25 diesel and would like an engine that will give me better performance but maintain economy . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll miss you though , Kate , you 've kept me together body and soul since I lost Mandy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So I eventually gorr it out the way , but I would n't like to gerr into that position again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm I personally sir did not detect any double negative there . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I only order water when I 'm not paying . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | No , I just I just question . |
| 16 | Well I just kind of was running round the shop because I was |
| 17 | This profile is for samples that I just north of South Georgia in the south Atlantic in nineteen eighty six . |
| 18 | Well sometimes , but sometimes I just pickpocket it 's much easier that way . |
| 19 | Why do I just time , why do I do that ? |
| 20 | my Lord , my Lord erm my Lord that really brings me to what are , er my conclusions , my Lord erm , can I just practice my conclusions with two erm comments , first of all about the , the my learned friend seems to paint erm in relation to this of course Mr made a point quite strongly that he agrees this is a relevant consideration and that er have exaggerated the situation and if they are willing to make a point a like this it would require evidence , they did point to their accounts , Lord erm I do n't see to put in evidence , but the , the statutory statement of business served er filed by on the first of September this year with the D T I , revealed that has a total of sixteen and a half billion in it 's members premium trust funds which is up four billion from the end of the previous year , erm , set against that the claims now made against the names is , is relatively speaking er small , erm my Lord |
| 21 | I du n no what to do , so I just sort of stand there . |
| 22 | So , what I do is , I just sort of rub my teeth with my fingers . |
| 23 | My head 's spinning , so I just sort of lean there a bit and have a rest . |
| 24 | ‘ I just sort of taught myself , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 25 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 26 | The rest of the week I just sort of tidy round , dust , put the carpet sweeper over — that takes me till a quarter past three , when I go to meet my little girl from school , and I do n't very often get much done once she 's home … |
| 27 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 28 | Can I just sort of say I 'm I 'm somebody working on a team er , that deals with eating disorders . |
| 29 | I never actually spoke to anybody about boyfriends , contraceptives , intercourse , whatever , I just sort of picked little things up , I thought if you were under sixteen either your parents came with you or you do n't get anything . |
| 30 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |