Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is entirely right and I agree with him . |
| 2 | But his family is extremely rich and I do n't expect he knows any shepherds . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 4 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 5 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 6 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 7 | ever so old and I lost the thing |
| 8 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 9 | The water was only waist-deep and I walked ashore . |
| 10 | So Stuart began by telling a couple of jokes , which fell rather flat because he was so jumpy and I do n't think the jokes were much good in the first place . |
| 11 | I understand my hon. Friend 's point , but the section is entirely clear and I think that all local authorities are aware of its provisions , which place the primary duty of enforcing the Shops Act 1950 on them . |
| 12 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 13 | 1993 will be no less demanding and I know we can count on their continuing professional dedication . |
| 14 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 15 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 16 | She was terribly ambitious and I knew she 'd go on to do well . |
| 17 | So why am I so lucky and I got you as well ? |
| 18 | I went to see the Postmistress and she said I 've known you all my life , so start work on Monday morning because , you see , it was so quick and I had n't got my references back from the Railway Company but that 's what she said er I can start work on Monday morning . |
| 19 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 20 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 21 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That right is a natural punch for me and could be the best I 've ever thrown , it felt so good and I did n't get any shock at all up my arm . |
| 23 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 24 | Of course they would for a start , I have n't done anything , all that sort of business , but he was extremely good and I think the reason that he 'd got admissions quicker than we did , was partly by virtue of the fact that he was the boss of the department . |
| 25 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 26 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 27 | 'Cos everyone , she was reading this out , and everyone was going , yeah , yeah and it sounded so stupid and I thought , |
| 28 | You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it . |
| 29 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 30 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |