Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her rescuer said impatiently , ‘ Sorry I took so long . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I took so long — ’ Jenna started apologetically , but he interrupted smoothly , standing and motioning them both to the door . |
| 3 | Sorry I took so long , but a customer came in just as you darted off . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 5 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 6 | And I seem to have been fairly successful in that I 've never neither I , nor Father Christmas , has ever been asked for what I would consider to be a greedy , outrageous present ! |
| 7 | I 'll come as no surprise to you that er what 's been suggested would be consistent with the sorts of arguments that that I put forward yesterday . |
| 8 | In my teens , I remember , the usual result ( and when I say usual I mean about twice a week ) was sudden , fulminating appendicitis . |
| 9 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 10 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 11 | Luckily , in a place the size of Scampton it was easy enough to keep out of her path , and this I did quite successfully until my turn came for demobilisation . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's this I say so often ? ’ |
| 13 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid I get really rather cross about this . |
| 15 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 16 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I behaved rather badly . ’ |
| 18 | JEWKES : [ to PAMELA ] Give me leave , madam , to wish you all manner of happiness but I am afraid I have too well obeyed his honour to be forgiven by you . |
| 19 | This she did rather neatly by picking it up , tossing it in the air and catching it in her throat ; it was like a party trick . |
| 20 | Merchants were able to secure exemption from it , and although it is not clear who emerged more strongly from disputes in the 1440s , by the 1450s control of the Staple seems to have passed to men hostile to it ( 84 , pp.261 , 270–1 , 273 ) . |
| 21 | The Inquisitors concluded : ‘ Blessed be the Most High who has so far preserved the Male sex from so great a crime2 . ’ |
| 22 | If you 're unable to find suitable fixings and cabinet furniture at your local hardware shop , there is a firm in Lancashire called Woodfit which supplies all sorts of things by mail order , including some you 've probably never imagined existed . |
| 23 | Our next destination was Queenstown , a tourist centre set amid mountains and lakes , and offering every conceivable kind of outdoor activity including some you 've never even heard of . |
| 24 | And if you 're not careful you sit there blankly in the one armchair , with the curtains drawn and your bag on the stand , until it 's too late to do anything . |
| 25 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 26 | About this we knew far more in detail than most who are teaching today … |
| 27 | As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) . |
| 28 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 29 | This we see quite clearly in the example of ‘ green fingers ’ , where plants respond to the intent and good feeling in the mind of the human caring for them . |
| 30 | ‘ For a year and a half we lived here together . ’ |