Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | Yet despite my criminal tendencies , this week 's news that Kenneth Clarke is planning to curb police powers against drivers has rather worried me . |
| 3 | But even just guessing has rather put me off Oliver at the moment . |
| 4 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 5 | I have been Ill recently and her sale has badly upset me . |
| 6 | Like him , my children have had to stand by helpless and in absolute panic while their father has brutally beaten me in front of them . |
| 7 | I 'm sure I catch something about meeting the Prime Minister.He bounds down to meet me , spruce and sporty in blazer and striped tie . |
| 8 | When she has somewhat recovered I will take her back to the specialists although you have done more than any psychiatrist she has seen . ’ |
| 9 | This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making . |
| 10 | I have this day received a letter from Dearest Mary about that which has so distressed me , your unbelievable decision to place Allegra in a convent — |
| 11 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 12 | He has not created me for nothing . |
| 13 | I think it an advantage to a student to have something to react against , but this has not led me to struggle to reach firm conclusions on every topic . |
| 14 | He is a good player and it has boosted everyone , but it has not spurred me on to greater efforts . |
| 15 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 16 | ‘ Surprisingly enough , Old Red has not given me his reasons . |
| 17 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 18 | For instance the project will assess children 's understanding of the following situation : at a pedestrian crossing I can rely on the motorist stopping if I know that he has seen me , but I can not rely on it if I know that he has not seen me . |
| 19 | ‘ If all that pother has not made me forget ! |
| 20 | I am so happy , as I never expected to be , knowing that he wishes to marry me , has not rejected me as soiled goods as so many would have done . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not a pathfinder for any particular final result , and certainly the President of the United States has not sent me here . |
| 22 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 23 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 24 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 25 | My nausea has not left me . |
| 26 | I hope this has not inhibited me from sharing some of their struggle . |
| 27 | It has finally won me over from Excel . |
| 28 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 29 | Bill 's story has finally convinced me of one thing — the nature of Mandy Smith 's ‘ mystery illness ’ . |
| 30 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |