Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 2 | The evening before last I watched your father proceeding very slowly towards the dining room with his tray , and I am afraid I observed clearly a large drop on the end of his nose dangling over the soup bowls . |
| 3 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 4 | Out of that 4,000 I saw maybe a dozen or so women . |
| 5 | At first I heard only a few calls ; within ten minutes , at least twice as many animals were calling , and , by circling about the pool , I observed that a steady stream of spadefoots was coming from all directions to the breeding area . |
| 6 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |