Example sentences of "i [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteen twenty six strike , the o the thing that struck me most of all was , they were going to out the railway men . |
| 2 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 3 | Oh yeah I I both of us would would be always recording and singing what we like ourselves you know . |
| 4 | Why this is hell nor am I out of it . |
| 5 | Not , I out of the machine I think it is . |
| 6 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 7 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 8 | I though of ringing Paul today to ask him about what he was gon na do with this other racking . |
| 9 | That 's all I though of it about , I saw it as a really as er each stage performance was like an orgasm . |
| 10 | So we that meant , say , that I instead of me being away from the property for about two and a half hours , taking the turf back Caffer Cliss we saved all that time . |
| 11 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 12 | And he put me off of that the other ones you gave me with the , what was it ? |
| 13 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 14 | Tell me more of it … |
| 15 | P.S. Tell me more of the brother and sister of sweet Shelley . |
| 16 | ‘ Now please show me more of marvellous Florence . ’ |
| 17 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 18 | She reminds me more of All Souls ’ Eve than Christmas . |
| 19 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 20 | With his tousled hair and humorous expression , he reminded me slightly of Michael Heseltine , the English politician . |
| 21 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 22 | Sharon 's father talked to me both of the building and the killing of a community . |
| 23 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 24 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 25 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 26 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 27 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 28 | Wo n't let me out of his sight for a minute , he said . |
| 29 | He hurriedly ushered me out of the room . |
| 30 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |