Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 2 | Please , said a friend of this journal , egged on I suspect by a green-fingered two-year-old son , will you put in a word for the worm ? |
| 3 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 5 | So I went with an open mind . |
| 6 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 7 | So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress . |
| 8 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 9 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 10 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 11 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 12 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 13 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 14 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 16 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 17 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 18 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 19 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 20 | I also think he probably thought that it might help to ease the tension erm in Northern Ireland , whether it did or not I leave as an open debate and I do n't think there was just a single motive for President Clinton 's decision , but the one I was trying to demonstrate which was hit straight away was there was a domestic element , a des domestic political element in the decision . |
| 21 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 22 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 23 | Forty minutes later I parked outside a slate-grey office block in the business centre . |
| 24 | A few days later I returned from a lengthy scout round the area to find a woman in those dark clothes in the kitchen putting cups on the table . |
| 25 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
| 26 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 27 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 28 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 29 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 30 | Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike . |