Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off she went ‘ to see ’ and eventually I got my two pieces of wholemeal , well more or less wholemeal , bread . |
| 2 | Suddenly I remembered my weekly shower and hurried to join the ragged party which was forming outside . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's my manuscript there , ’ he said hesitatingly ; ‘ naturally I feel its manifest imperfections . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps I get my large build from my dad who 's six foot four and 20 stone … |
| 6 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
| 7 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 8 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 9 | So I mean you mid winter wool but you can see without , it would not have the structure would it ? |
| 10 | So I get you right Joan ? |
| 11 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 12 | So I spent my first month as Special Projects Officer looking for work . |
| 13 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 14 | , that oh dear , you have to take this stuff with water it says , it is a horror one so I bought us some chocolate eclairs , have you got them ? |
| 15 | I was , I was a bit excited so I started mine last night |
| 16 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
| 17 | So I showed him that letter you had . |
| 18 | I s so I showed him this tin full , I says well look they do break do n't they ? |
| 19 | So I gave him slack line and waited again . |
| 20 | So I suppose my ideal carer is an intelligent , middle aged woman who is n't too over-protective but has a … warm and friendly manner . |
| 21 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 22 | Right , so I owe you twenty pound I have n't got any tens , you 'll have to change that . |
| 23 | So I give him more arms and he says he does n't need to make concessions because Israel is strong . ’ |
| 24 | so I give it these girls , them , let them have the worry |
| 25 | Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face , and when I looked down , I saw a very small human being , only fifteen centimetres tall . |
| 26 | Anyway I had my clean bloomers on . |
| 27 | And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down |
| 28 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 29 | Finally I got my long-awaited appointment to see Dr John Randell , the ‘ patron saint of transsexuals ’ . |
| 30 | While I was investigating the toilet paper downstairs I missed their new single ‘ Goodbye ! ’ . |