Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 2 | It seemed so awful to me there , shabby in a cold and desolate way and so dusty and all of the sofa taken up by stacks of cushions arranged like books on a bookshelf . |
| 3 | Though why you should have me , simply because I opened the glass case , is less clear to me altogether , and when , and if , you are restored to your rightful place , and your home and lands and people are again your own , I trust you will feel free to reconsider the matter , and remain , if you will , alone and unwed . |
| 4 | It is just unspeakably monstrous to me now . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not an insubstantial age , though everyone looks so young to me now . ’ |
| 6 | The intellectual form of superiority was the one most accessible to me both at home and at school . |
| 7 | Seven hours after he learnt of the accident , ‘ it was already clear to me how dreadful the consequences were . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ All races count but what 's more important to me today is seeing this old horse winning again . |
| 9 | My main reservation about the book , which is more evident to me now than when it first appeared , is that Lodge has too direct and univocal an understanding of the elusive concept of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 10 | I pass by the house now and then but it does n't seem awfully real to me yet . |
| 11 | ‘ Victoria , if it will put your mind at ease , I can assure you that Miguel Rafaelo is about as interesting to me as — as a wardrobe , or a desk — useful , but definitely lacking charisma . ’ |
| 12 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 13 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 14 | He is quite used to me now and even accords me some respect . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed quite shameless to me then but it would probably seem tame to today 's youngsters . |
| 16 | But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair . |
| 17 | This was made very clear to me early in my fieldwork when I offended a neighbour by trying to make explicit return of food that had been given to my wife and me . |
| 18 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 19 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |