Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 2 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 3 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 4 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 5 | Books and tapes of TV programmes record the genesis and growth of Grove House , The Bristol Cancer Help Centre better than I ever could . |
| 6 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 7 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 8 | These are not my words , they are the Lolita chap , Nabokov 's , but they express better than I ever could my feelings . |
| 9 | ‘ Better than I ever imagined . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But not quite so mercenary , and I find it exceedingly distasteful for you to arrogantly assume you might understand my sister a great deal better than I ever could . |
| 11 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 12 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 13 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 14 | There was a momentary hesitation , so that I half expected him to say she was n't there . |
| 15 | Erm , so that I apparently would be still me even if I had completely different desires , tastes , er preferences er so on and so forth . |
| 16 | He was the one who had been inside me , so that I suddenly knew , like a reprieve , a baby was coming , my links were strengthening . |
| 17 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 18 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 19 | Battered , worn ; battered and worn and pitted into a bit of a mask , so that I never quite believe whatever expression it 's got on . |
| 20 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 21 | Conversely , to say ‘ It hurts ’ conveys the information , not merely that I spontaneously flinch from the sensation , but that I am sharply aware of it . |
| 22 | On European monetary and economic union , I will say only that I wholeheartedly support the views expressed by my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 23 | I thought I had less than I actually had . |
| 24 | ‘ I have done all that I reasonably could , consistent with economic realities and legal constraints , to increase the opportunities for British Coal . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps if I just quickly point out the main ones erm they have been amended in er , a later version of the document . |
| 26 | I think perhaps if I just add a point to that er although we have as four nations agreed on the revised requirement there , I believe it 's true to say that development has progressed to such an extent that probably we will have the original requirement in practice , even though we 've no longer specified it . |
| 27 | Perhaps if I just start with that simple question and see how it develops . |
| 28 | Better if I just end your scenario right here and now . ’ |
| 29 | I must admit I , I really do n't agree with that , I mean I find that many women who have had erm children actually their figure has improved after the children , they look a great deal better and I certainly do n't think that many women in Scotland looked vast after they 've had children , I totally disagree with that . |
| 30 | But only if I really really trust you . . |