Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I uneasily awaited his first question about my journalistic ambitions . |
| 2 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 3 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 4 | I rather liked her unabashed frankness . |
| 5 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 6 | I obviously got you wrong . ’ |
| 7 | But , I , I misunderstood , I obviously got it wrong then . |
| 8 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 9 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 10 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
| 11 | I only got , I only ruined me other one cos when , when it , |
| 12 | ‘ Sir , I only met her this weekend . |
| 13 | He exclaimed , " Woe is me , if I only had my two darling nephews I should not lack a champion . " |
| 14 | ‘ I only had my little Fender Super Reverb , which was basically only a 35 watt amp — undistorted it 's about 25 watts — so I could n't handle it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I only had my eighteenth birthday last week . ’ |
| 16 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 17 | I only paid her five hundred in the hope she 'd come up with something better . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object . |
| 19 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 20 | I only found you this morning , and reckoning by the tide you could n't have been there long . |
| 21 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 22 | I only gave her fifteen . |
| 23 | Dr Margaret Smith , however , feels differently : ‘ I greatly appreciated my one year in Graduate House and the chance to rub shoulders on a daily basis with such a cosmopolitan cross-section of people ’ . |
| 24 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
| 25 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 26 | I much enjoyed my 15 years in England and got on well with nearly everyone . |
| 27 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 28 | But then I just told you that . |
| 29 | ‘ I just told you that , Charles . |
| 30 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |