Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm dead upset that I have n't had any pornographic mail . |
| 2 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 3 | And he 'll be do a very good show rather a shy man but he will And that will be that will be rather technical if I know Adrian , but if you if you like he 's that 's the time to come . |
| 4 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 5 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 6 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 7 | I was most upset when I saw it . |
| 8 | I know it looks rather exaggerated but I wanted them back without a lot of questions . ’ |
| 9 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 10 | Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh . |
| 11 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 12 | We have n't beaten the Aussies at Lord 's since 1933 and I do n't see us winning now . |
| 13 | Erm , I think that this erm , part of the agenda is most interesting because I think it 's other departments which also report back to the policy resources , which really , we as a erm , council do n't get much chance to see it 's doing . |
| 14 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 15 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 16 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 17 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 18 | Readings were only normal when I was walking , perhaps because of the tendency of exertion to increase body temperature . |
| 19 | Yes I did I would have liked to have gone much farther but I could n't . |
| 20 | ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’ |
| 21 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is entirely right and I agree with him . |
| 23 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 24 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 25 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 26 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 27 | ‘ The feeling was so strong that I actually felt quite emotional — almost tearful , ’ says Julie . |
| 28 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 29 | The roof of the pub was so low that I could not stand upright . |
| 30 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |