Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had nice Tory ladies saying that to me in 1983 , and me vigorously nodding my agreement . |
| 2 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 3 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 4 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 5 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 6 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 7 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 8 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 9 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 10 | When I eventually reached his house we got out his canoe . |
| 11 | The postman handed me a letter as I eventually reached my Pop 's house — it was an offer of a council house . |
| 12 | The great problem I faced , when I eventually obtained my degree in zoology , was that to convert my childhood fascination into an adult career I would have to carry out experiments on animals . |
| 13 | I humbly thank your ladyship . |
| 14 | ‘ Warning you , ’ I tell her as I slowly take my hand away from her mouth . |
| 15 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 16 | I slowly shook my head . |
| 17 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 18 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 19 | When I started on my mental journey ; the way seemed to be dark and impossible , yet I slowly found my way ; and so can everyone else . |
| 20 | ‘ I rather like your head on my shoulder , ’ he said quietly . |
| 21 | I rather like your idea of a course . |
| 22 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |
| 23 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Generosity , happiness and warmth abound in their presence — I so appreciate their friendship , especially when my wife was ill with leukaemia . ’ |
| 25 | I so move my Lord Mayor |
| 26 | I so move my Lord Mayor . |
| 27 | I so move my Lord Mayor |
| 28 | So I merely downplayed my reply . |
| 29 | The other perceives , I merely imagine ; he suffers , I merely simulate his distress by letting myself be moved by what I imagine . |
| 30 | I merely doubt your willingness to go to it . |