Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 3 | I feel at ease — much better than I did then . ’ |
| 4 | You know what you want to buy better than I do anyway . |
| 5 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 6 | Do I want to follow a set exercise programme or would I prefer to change my life-style so that I become more active ? |
| 7 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 8 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 9 | ‘ Ken Russell , the director , insisted I grew one of my own , rather than wear a false one , so that I looked completely convincing . |
| 10 | Aviation was one of them and I was completely fascinated by the thrill of flying , so much so that I thought seriously of giving up journalism and becoming an aviator . |
| 11 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 12 | So much so that I want very much to make love to you again . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've really enjoyed the whole experience , ’ said Helen , ‘ and have learned to adapt my existing routine so that I look more polished overall . |
| 14 | I 've got it timed so that I arrive just before your French maid number , so I do n't have to sit through all the rest of it . |
| 15 | I said , but just then the wind tore through the yard , clutching icily at my face , snatching my breath away so that I turned involuntarily to one side with an explosive " Aaahh ! " |
| 16 | It was for Papa 's sake only that I ate again . |
| 17 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 18 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 19 | Perhaps if I try again I shall know for sure . ’ |
| 20 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 21 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 22 | Quite ob quite obviously cos I say so in my evidence . |
| 23 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 24 | So until I hear otherwise I am going to go on thinking of Jerusalem as a place where Arab , Jew and Christian have a crossroads and a task to effect reconciliation that will take deeds , not words , to achieve . |
| 25 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 26 | So if I take away a negative number it 's the same as adding . |
| 27 | So if I know less about it than I should , whose fault is that ? |
| 28 | So if I go straight over and invite Simon to address us next , please . |
| 29 | So if I go twice as fast , does that mean it 's gon na take me twice as long to get there ? |
| 30 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |