Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 2 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 3 | When he walked in I thought , You can take me dirty dancing any day of the week . |
| 4 | It has been made plain that Government policy on aid will be increasingly conditioned by the performance of recipient governments in terms of human rights and observance of democratic practices , and I wholly welcome that . |
| 5 | Reclaiming overtime is seen as the responsibility of each registered nurse ; I rarely did this , partly through choice but also because our patient dependency was regularly very high . |
| 6 | I rarely find much satisfaction in debating harder abstractions or metaphysical teasers with him . |
| 7 | I rarely see any of them coming back for more . ’ |
| 8 | I duly put this plan to Eliot , who , to my mild surprise , did not seem to regard it as so fanciful an idea as I had anticipated . |
| 9 | I duly knitted two backs , marked the shape of the front neck and also a slight ‘ dip ’ on the back section and stitched two lines with the sewing machine using a long stitch . |
| 10 | I have every sympathy for Rolan Adams 's family at this sad time and I wholeheartedly condemn racial attacks and those who commit or incite racial hatred . |
| 11 | I successfully blocked one of the main avenues they were exploring . |
| 12 | After a telephone call to the senior medical officer in charge of part time training schemes at the Department of Health , who agreed that my application would be allowed , I successfully jumped all the hurdles . |
| 13 | But you do n't get that choice you do n't er and to me I , I hate going because the , you , you got everyone seems to be , it 's , it 's as bad as a road really with the trolleys erm and I badly miss this over-the-counter service but er |
| 14 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 15 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
| 16 | I badly needed more money , so the take-over could not come too quickly as far as I was concerned . |
| 17 | I eventually became worried and then frightened . |
| 18 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 19 | After some further outside tests and a fair amount of soul-searching , I eventually bought this detector and the 10.5in accessory coil . |
| 20 | What are the maximum stocking levels for a tank of 48″x12″x15″ with a Fluval 4 internal filter , and will I eventually need additional filtration ? |
| 21 | Much genetic data was collected from some two thousand young men and women , and using the computer services of two cooperating universities , I eventually selected six potential mothers . |
| 22 | ‘ I vigorously condemn all violence directed at people or property , ’ the secretary of state for the sea , Charles Josselin , said in a statement . |
| 23 | In the beginning they offered me aversion therapy but I furiously refused that . |
| 24 | ‘ Oceans apart , day after day , and I slowly go insane . |
| 25 | I slowly munched diced meat pie stuffed with herbs . |
| 26 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 27 | I slowly read these four books and found much consolation , John 14 being , for me , profound . |
| 28 | On the evidence I 've seen so far I rather doubt that . ’ |
| 29 | I rather doubt this is true , but I look forward to Part Two of this well-made documentary . |
| 30 | I rather hope that local cuisine , local flavours , will reassert themselves . |