Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first everyone had been smiling , thinking how right I looked holding the baby . |
| 2 | right I want to see the homework , those that have n't got it etcetera . |
| 3 | Luckily I managed to grab the abseil rope firmly enough with both hands to stop ) . |
| 4 | I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back . |
| 5 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 6 | Just look , I 'm not gon na do the circle I 'm just gon na demonstrate where it is , P R I N C E , down to the E , hang on I 've knocked the pen out |
| 7 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 8 | Rather I wish to use the experience of West Ham as a means to examine the nature of working-class political intervention . |
| 9 | It would be unfair to say that I have formed a low view of the Foreign Office ; rather I have formed the view that Foreign Office activities have in some way become totally disconnected from the human race . |
| 10 | ‘ I remain confident about my ability to do the business at Premier League level , and suddenly I 've got the chance to prove this self-belief is not misplaced . |
| 11 | Suddenly I start ripping the poster off the wall , ripping it into bits . |
| 12 | Suddenly I wanted to hear the sound of human voices and to feel the warmth and comfort of loved ones . |
| 13 | Suddenly I have twisted the gun out of his hand — but it flies away from us across the ground . |
| 14 | But apparently I have to feel The Bump three or four times a day or be found guilty of Not Being Involved as a Father , or worse still , of this darkly Freudian offence called Denial . |
| 15 | ‘ If only I 'd recognized the signs of Bubbleshake contamination when I met him . |
| 16 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 17 | only I 've finished the letter |
| 18 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 19 | Only I have closed the shop for siesta , and I wanted to talk to you about my husband . |
| 20 | And anything will be worthwhile — the loss of Tara , the loss of Fergus — it will have been worthwhile if only I have woken the Enchantment of the Beastline . |
| 21 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 22 | And perhaps I 've found the thing for me already . |
| 23 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to see the windows again . |
| 25 | Perhaps I tried to force the pace . |
| 26 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 27 | Obviously I enjoyed having the opportunity to watch any nesting birds so close at hand — I could reach out of my bedroom window , when Mum was n't around , and feel right inside the nest — but many of the neighbours looked on the house martins as pests who infested their property and made a mess . |
| 28 | So obviously I kept drinking the water and the next day , on the Sunday , the pain was so bad we called the doctor again and he found out I was in labour and he sent me to the hospital and they found out not until the Thursday that it was actually the cryptosporidium that had caused it . |
| 29 | So I went to take the call in some confusion — confusion made worse by haste when Alexander told me it was the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |