Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 4 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 5 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 8 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 9 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So instead I crunch in a low right-hook that will end his sex life for a month . |
| 12 | You know , the one where I retreat into a broad North Country accent which makes Su Pollard sound like a stockbroker , and start straining sycophantically and laughing before they 've finished the punchline … |
| 13 | He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ … |