Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 2 | I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended . |
| 3 | I was quite sorry to do so because I liked the manufacturing process very much indeed , but I do n't believe you can be both a manufacturer and a retailer . |
| 4 | Then , as she began to prepare the injections , Mr Miller added , ‘ I 'll make a list for my records , along with dates , but I sha n't be able to sell any until I have the vaccination cards . |
| 5 | ‘ I quite understand , but I wo n't be able to rest peacefully until I 've made the call . ’ |
| 6 | Well , there I was in London , penniless ; like the man in the gospel , I was too proud to go home so I begged and fought with the rest of the dispossessed in the dirty alleyways and streets of Whitechapel , Alsatia , and even across London Bridge amongst the stews of Southwark . |
| 7 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 8 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 9 | ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says . |