Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 2 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 3 | Er now let's go back over oh first of all let me explain what the idea is Hello . |
| 4 | First of all let me emphasize our common experience that most human relationships are asymmetrical . |
| 5 | So , first of all let me say , it 's a matter of choice . |
| 6 | First of all let me state I like him as much as I like Cuntona . |
| 7 | Least of all do I recognise the fairness and balance of the current Tory legislation which you claim . |
| 8 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 9 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 10 | I know I was , and it took a tragedy like this to make me see straight . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the countryside reminded me of East Anglia , the willows in particular making me realise how far I was from home . |
| 12 | Only in Split in 1990 did I start out too quickly and felt bad at the half-marathon stage . |
| 13 | The Holy Spirit is the one , there 's no right answer to this let me say . |