Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 2 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 3 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 4 | They say , ‘ Thank you for playing the hymn , you did n't mention my name so although I know you were n't playing it just for me , I felt as if you were ’ . |
| 5 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 6 | Better than I thought it would be . |
| 7 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 8 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 9 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 10 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 11 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 12 | They have made no impression on the Yugoslavian tragedy — so much so that I wish we had developed our own foreign policy towards the future of Yugoslavia in general and to the states of Slovenia and Croatia in particular . |
| 13 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 14 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 15 | But she avoided my lips , so that I brushed her cheek , and as I tried to find her mouth she said , ‘ No , Kit . |
| 16 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
| 17 | They have prepared me well , supported me through university , taught me the difference between right and wrong , so that I know which I am enjoying at any given time ! |
| 18 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 19 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
| 20 | I ca n't put it easily out of my mind , and the gentle tone nags at me , so that I find myself worrying , asking my friends in a roundabout way : by the way , what do you weigh ? |
| 21 | ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ God knows when I 'll see you again , but tonight I shall … so that I have something to remember , my little Cassie . ’ |
| 23 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 24 | Different names may be current in my area , so that I give you information on the wrong fish . |
| 25 | So much so that I bought his only copy of it , and earned his cordial loathing . |
| 26 | ’ . So that I disturbed nothing , but went out through a door into the walled kitchen garden — the garden with its crumbly black soil enriched by centuries of pigs , pails , and poultry , where soon houses would stand . |
| 27 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 28 | I think it 's slightly after the witching hour , so that I think we should begin . |
| 29 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 30 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |