Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track . |
| 2 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 3 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India . |
| 6 | Those were the Somalis , let me make that clear . |
| 7 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 8 | ‘ A hospital is a system designed to enable me to treat as many patients as possible with the aid of specialised equipment , nursing care , etc . |
| 9 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |
| 10 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 11 | In fact , if they do have a complaint , it 's that they would probably like me to go back full time — which is very nice to know ! ’ |
| 12 | Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper |
| 13 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
| 14 | All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching . |
| 15 | That was what 'd taken my fancy when the plan struck me : I could just see them standing there , mouths opening and shutting , looking at me bringing home this strange new boyfriend , knowing that nice people are polite to their daughters ' boyfriends when they 're thrust in front of their noses but — how can you be polite , darling — or , well , be anything — to this one ? |
| 16 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 17 | I could n't sleep , you made me laugh too much , |
| 18 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 19 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 20 | But what makes made me laugh so much was the fact that they cos their clothes they 've got are always the biggest , mind you , it 'd fit anybody , it 's alright |
| 21 | Cos I ca n't shut up they make me laugh so hard and Harry Enfield Only me ! |
| 22 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |
| 23 | It was at this point I decided to modify the router fence with two aluminium blocks which allowed me to work off that face but beneath the area I wanted to machine away . |
| 24 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 25 | Do you think they would allow me to pass on this ultimate truth ? ’ |
| 26 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 27 | I do n't think there 's any need for me to spell out any more at this point what that may mean but the responsibility in as churches to ensure that we care for the under eights . |
| 28 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 29 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 30 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |