Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
2 | If you are not prepared to let me see the original letter then this pretence of cooperation becomes a farce and I see no point in continuing it . ’ |
3 | and as you do n't have anything to do with the decorating anyway I do n't know what you 're peeved about you like it before and then you like it after , and you 're quite content to let me do the bit in the middle . |
4 | But some people are appallingly mean did I tell you about that Ned being done out of six hundred pounds by an indian doctor and a her husband ? |
5 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
6 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
7 | But what the screens revealed was not likely to make me feel easy . |
8 | A feeling that I was horribly conspicuous made me wish to hide myself . |
9 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |