Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only eight brace I 'm afraid , Mr Lawler . ’ |
| 2 | So this means I got ta walk home all on my little own-some ? |
| 3 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 4 | ‘ It was so easy to say I wanted to go to Australia , without really knowing what he meant . ’ |
| 5 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it so hard to believe I could have meant it ? ’ he asked her lightly , but was there a suggestion of hurt behind the words ? |
| 7 | ‘ I used to visit it everyday and it 's just so hard to know I wo n't see it again for a while . |
| 8 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 9 | I was n't only late to arrive I was late to leave , too . |
| 10 | ‘ How much longer do I have to endure this innuendo ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How much longer do I have to listen to all of this crap ? |
| 12 | That there is a power beyond mankind itself — and I 'm not ashamed to say I trust in the existence and loving-kindness of God — that should be accepted , just as our own imperfections should be accepted . |
| 13 | You do n't have to spend a lot of money to look just nice looking I mean d' you know , er just you know nice appearing , clean appearing or something like that that will do and beauty most of it its come from inside . |
| 14 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 15 | The next issue will hit your desks in October ( 1993 I hope ) so please put pen to paper , fingers to keyboard ( but not tipp-ex to screen I beg you ) , and get your scribblings in to the publishing team by early September ( exact date will be given soon ) . |
| 16 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 17 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 18 | Still less do I want to take sides between differing schools of psychotherapy . |
| 19 | It would be more accurate to say I have caught more big fish in daylight than in darkness , but that a lot of my daylight fish came as a result of fishing all night . |
| 20 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 21 | It was really more enjoyable to feel I was in control . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have asked at houses near the academy , but to rent a room there — yes , it is most embarrassing to say I can not afford what is asked , and I shall not be earning until I begin my work in two weeks . |
| 23 | There are only about 550 Grade I listed properties in Norfolk , more than 400 of which are churches . |
| 24 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | You were n't supposed to know I was seeing him . |
| 27 | You lot ai n't supposed to know I 'm taping . |
| 28 | No there were n't many left I remember love the other day . |
| 29 | In the course of one chapter we find the following phrases , in this order : there seems no explanation on Darwinian grounds It is no easier to explain It is hard to understand It is not easy to understand It is equally difficult to explain I do not find it easy to comprehend I do not find it easy to see … |
| 30 | But it is n't true to say I 'd certainly say it is n't true to say that making the recommendations of our market have been slightly up recommendation in takings . |