Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 2 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 3 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 4 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 5 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 6 | I 'd rather know I came fourth and ninth . ’ |
| 7 | ( 128 ) Other women — they only made me love you more . |
| 8 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 9 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 10 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 11 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 12 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 13 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 14 | So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’ |
| 15 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 16 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 17 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 18 | It 's only raining I mean |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever you have to say will only make me feel uncomfortable . ’ |
| 20 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 21 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 24 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's convinced he 's innocent of Angy 's murder and she only wants me to play detective and find the real killer ! |
| 26 | So send me to Sing-Sing … |
| 27 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 28 | But , surely , coming back to the a highly say I did n't do it . |
| 29 | Erm , he 's only won I admit |
| 30 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |