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Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Nor that I thereby hope for immortality :
2	In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life .
3	I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early .
4	I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene .
5	These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes .
6	I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman .
7	I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity .
8	I only speak from observation ; yours may be different , I grant .
9	Sebastiana : I only suffer from overwork nervos .
10	( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) .
11	I only go for tendering of accounts like B T for example
12	‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four .
13	I only work in metal ; steel and occasionally alluminium .
14	But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ .
15	I only appear in court when other people have been unjustly treated .
16	I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action .
17	I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’
18	Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day .
19	‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed .
20	I just felt like crying .
21	idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint .
22	Probably better if I just stay at work and come and pick me up .
23	And I just stay at home and other stuff like I bunked off a couple of days , whole days of school .
24	Well I just stay at home .
25	I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed .
26	He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him .
27	I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan .
28	I just fall into bed any old how , it 's sometimes so late when I get back . ’
29	Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done .
30	So I just said in passing , I said Well your husband 's allowed up to two hours , he thinks it 's only gon na t Ooh she 's says it wo n't take that , no .