Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 2 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 3 | So let me turn to an issue , less Earth shattering , but no less vexatious — the keeping of mink in Shetland . |
| 4 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 5 | And equally colleagues there is also , it 's true believe me , and normally there 's another one up there , a no smoking sign so please be restrained , if only to help me to get through the week with my voice which is usually very bad ! |
| 6 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |
| 7 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 8 | the habits and practice of the French courts are different from our own , and … when the cross-examination of [ the ] witness is most material , and will alone enable me to judge of the effect of his examination-in-chief , I decline to delegate my discretion to any other tribunal . |
| 9 | There 's enough to keep me going for the week there is n't there ? |
| 10 | ‘ You 've asked enough to keep me talking for a month . |
| 11 | Casey brings a double-handed chop down on the back of my neck , just off target but enough to send me reeling in a flood of numb red nausea . |
| 12 | much do I get from the bank ? |
| 13 | I heard enough to learn I featured in the conversation . |
| 14 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 15 | Can I just comment I think on the process , what happens is , is that in fact the application is made by the director of property services , we do n't now have a first resolution or a second resolution . |
| 16 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 17 | Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's just say I got in a tight spot . ’ |
| 19 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 20 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 21 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 22 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 23 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 24 | And as long as you keep producing the champagne and caviar , I wo n't hold it against you that you nearly had me exterminated by an octogenarian . ’ |
| 25 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 26 | Now let me say with the monthly card and with the daily page , I 'm going to be showing you a very structured approach to planning . |
| 27 | Now let me push on a bit and erm I wo n't ask you to write this down , but when we , we 've been talking about the state now what are the characteristics of the state ? |
| 28 | I find that autumn-sown oats or rye ripen early and often allow me to squeeze in a catch crop of oats or rye after the main harvest to be grazed in the late autumn and spring before ploughing for roots . |
| 29 | Never before had I slept on a river . |
| 30 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |