Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 4 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 5 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Girdlestone has agreed to let you stay on while I try to find somewhere near where I live . |
| 7 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 8 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 9 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 12 | ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’ |
| 13 | I 've lived here longer than you . |
| 14 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 15 | ‘ I need to look more closely before we carry him back with us . ’ |
| 16 | I need to know as soon as possible now whether we can do these surveys or not so I can fill the policies in . |
| 17 | ‘ I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … . |
| 18 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 19 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 20 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 21 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 22 | ‘ Being blind means I have to listen very hard so I do n't get distracted by things around me . ’ |
| 23 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 24 | I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 25 | Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow . |