Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 2 | Scots preparing for conquest are a wonderful bunch , not much different I imagine from those bearded clansmen of the middle ages . |
| 3 | So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the . |
| 4 | So much I laid before Heather Mallender and so much I lay before you . |
| 5 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 6 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 7 | I am serious , darling , I 'm so serious I feel like bursting into tears . |
| 8 | I was so relieved I went to bed for two days . |
| 9 | The way he goes crunching into tackles makes me so glad I play with him and not against him . |
| 10 | I do n't know much about snooker , I must be honest , the last time I played , I kissed off the pink and owed Stewart Cameron a fiver , and that 's basically all I know about it . |
| 11 | By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them . |
| 12 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 13 | I went swimming , and I was so happy I cried into the sea for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 14 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 15 | I was so annoyed I thought to myself |
| 16 | the trainers course , the less inclined I feel to be able to do it . |
| 17 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 18 | I was so surprised I howled with indignation . |
| 19 | It was the most feeling I saw in him , apart from when describing some bitter wrangle in the London ad agency which had caused his walk-out and propelled him here . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , it is most urgent I speak to Mr Roirbak . |
| 21 | But er at the same time the further I go on , the more apprehensive I get about it . |
| 22 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
| 23 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 24 | The children under eleven I spoke to almost invariably had a sense of inferiority similar to that of a colonised people . |
| 25 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 26 | The older I get , the more efficient I become at sifting out the rubbish . |
| 27 | George continued with deliberate diffidence : ‘ It 's all rather confidential I know of course you 'll respect that ; the problem is rather whether you feel you can disclose anything from your side without an official request from Security and I 'm sure you 'll understand why we 'd rather avoid that at this stage … ’ |
| 28 | Erm and er so you know but you 've just got to be slightly careful I think of the figures and erm i if if you know it 's much better if you can talk to the the |
| 29 | And I 'm awfully glad I happened to be passing . |
| 30 | ‘ It is very nearly all I think of the hope in it , the glory to come … if I live to see it . ’ |