Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 2 | I became vividly aware of this disturbing phenomenon while I was sitting deep in thought on Hammersmith Bridge this afternoon . |
| 3 | I became heavily involved in far left politics , becoming a member of the Socialist Students ' Alliance , the student leftovers of the IMG 's ( Internation Marxist Group 's ) move into the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave . |
| 6 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 7 | I was overlooked repeatedly , to such an extent that I became completely disgusted . |
| 8 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 9 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 10 | Every day that passed while Jean-Claude was away I became increasingly disorientated . |
| 11 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 12 | With this observation , I became increasingly interested in what other sorts of evidence alerts social workers to possible child abuse . |
| 13 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 14 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 15 | Watching several of the video films of Highlander workshops I became forcibly aware of both broad and detailed comparisons of rural problems in Appalachia and the Scottish Highlands . |
| 16 | I see , simply , that at some point I became pathologically compliant . |
| 17 | When I eventually reached the gods I hesitated , afraid to push the door open , but after a couple of minutes I became too frightened to stand there in the dark any longer . |
| 18 | Anyway , I became as drunk as a vicar . |
| 19 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 20 | A former AE of a major futures bucket shop here recalls using hard sell techniques on a visiting client : " One day , he came to lunch with me , and I became quite drunk while he stayed determinedly sober . |
| 21 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 22 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 23 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 24 | I learned how to put up wallpaper — I became quite expert at it ! |
| 25 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 26 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 27 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 28 | I became really scared and then he started walking towards me . |
| 29 | I became really angry at this very obvious silence . |
| 30 | One man described his experience of depression in this way : ‘ Early in the crisis I became deeply aware that God was my ally . |