Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 2 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 3 | It makes me so cross when I see so much imported fruit and vegetables in the shops when we have as good , if not better English produce on hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 5 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 6 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 7 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 8 | I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it . |
| 9 | Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 10 | So I duly smeared and squeezed . |
| 11 | I was also given an indemnity form , which I duly completed and returned . |
| 12 | I naïvely thought that we had something special going for us . |
| 13 | When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked . |
| 14 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 15 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 16 | But may I politely suggest that in future they beat their meat in the privacy of their own studio instead of soiling our evening with such toss ? |
| 17 | I wholeheartedly welcome and endorse the proposals contained in the Gracious Speech , with only one minor caveat . |
| 18 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 19 | I would just about have the strength to make it through the gates — to the rest and smoke which I badly needed because my legs were beginning to seize up . |
| 20 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
| 21 | When I obtained the death certificate of Thomas Batty ( 1882 ) , I read that he had lived at Mastington ; I eventually discovered that this was a copyist 's error for Markington . |
| 22 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 23 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 24 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 25 | I humbly suggest that the two counties should get together . |
| 26 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 27 | In his letter of acceptance he wrote , ‘ I gladly accept and I shall do all I can for you , ’ and he did literally that . |
| 28 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 29 | ‘ I rather felt if they were n't going to carry in those conditions , we were n't going to get anywhere — the winds are n't going to get any better . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Look , I 'm not a feminist as such but I have to admit I rather resent that remark ! |