Example sentences of "i [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 2 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 3 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 4 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 5 | ‘ Have n't you found me rather a good audience ? ’ |
| 6 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 7 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 8 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 9 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 10 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 11 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 12 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 13 | I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven ! |
| 14 | Is this normal or am I just a good driver ? |
| 15 | Or am I just a moaning old crone ? |
| 16 | Can I just a minute , because I 've got the same feeling . |
| 17 | Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ? |
| 18 | Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me . |
| 19 | Yet had I hardly a foothold there . |
| 20 | It means that I can edit out any really awful mistakes that you make , or indeed any mistakes that I as an interviewer make , but it also means I can edit out some of the things you wish you 'd left in . |
| 21 | I really a word , and they had a little chat to us . |
| 22 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 23 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 24 | Am I even a little bit — beautiful , or are you just saying it to make me open up ? ’ |
| 25 | Am I simply a lesbian ? |
| 26 | ‘ Am I simply a substitute for Jeanne ? ’ |
| 27 | Not only was this behaviour upsetting for anyone hearing it , but it gave my walking partner and I quite a scare . |
| 28 | I could do park parade tha , a girl was , er er anywa , I went in the factory and one of the girls says they were saying about a dance , says ooh I quite a few you ought to see him dance the park parade ! |
| 29 | I am a lucky woman . ’ |
| 30 | I am an electronics engineer by training and enjoy the purity of mathematics as a hobby , alongside woodturning and anything practical and creative . |