Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress over the next two months or so should take me back to climbing . |
| 2 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure those couple of pounds less will make me even sharper . |
| 4 | " I bought a second-hand copy because it had been very usefully annotated , the notes alone will save me hours of work . " |
| 5 | For you alone can understand me and you alone can inspire me . |
| 6 | For you alone can understand me and you alone can inspire me . |
| 7 | ‘ At least , that 's what everyone here tonight must believe I 'm doing . ’ |
| 8 | Those who are not must forgive me my momentary lapse into modest mathematical sophistication . |
| 9 | Erm here I 've got some formulae calculating production figures er we 've got different quarters formulae found are somewhat similar er there 's a so that I can copy one to any of the other adjacent cells outside will work I do n't have to edit the formula or do anything to it soon as I copy it , it 's alright for that cell . |
| 10 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 11 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 12 | My servant always used to dress me . ’ |
| 13 | Why , I remember he always used to make me wager my pocket money — ’ She was interrupted . |
| 14 | Now when you 're , my grandfather , who was a serious betting man , always used to tell me , he was pretty good at it actually , he 'd say no good each way bet . |
| 15 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 16 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 17 | The study has helped me focus on my strengths and weaknesses in the management of the school and hopefully will encourage me to respond appropriately . |
| 18 | Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once ! |
| 19 | He also used to take me into the insect house , where he kept mosquitoes infected with tropical diseases . |
| 20 | Erm , and now let's see I used to have a file on this , but I might have passed it or given all the stuff away |
| 21 | And now you really must excuse me — ‘ |
| 22 | A change now would kill me quite . |
| 23 | So I really can say I 've been Cake-Maker to the king ! |
| 24 | Well let's say I 'd be ready for your for your next course if it 's not till . |
| 25 | Well let's say I multiply two hundred and twenty two by three hundred and thirty three . |
| 26 | Well let's say I 'm , I 'm just a little suspicious . |
| 27 | This program is a must for anyone using a PC at home and will impress dinner guests who always say ‘ You simply must let me have a copy of the recipe , the meal was delicious ’ , you can now print it out in seconds and sell them a copy . |
| 28 | ‘ But the guys here must remember I still love to stir things up and England do not do justice to people like Will and Jeremy Guscott . |
| 29 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
| 30 | And anyway , only Jenjin here could give me a match . ’ |