Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say , the diplomatic bag works extremely fast in both directions , so we are managing to keep up some kind of dialogue : she was insistent that I get out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's as much as possible . |
| 2 | But the floor was wet and I slid along before colliding with a slab of sprats , cod and ice which showered over me . |
| 3 | I , I thought it was quite fu erm , funny because I got back to erm the flats this afternoon |
| 4 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 5 | I was OK when I woke up , but when I remember Marie 's gone I start feeling sad . |
| 6 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 7 | Why was it wrong when I came in ? |
| 8 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 9 | It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone . |
| 10 | It was cold and snowy outside so I squeezed in with them . |
| 11 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
| 12 | I can give , well the first call really easy cos I get up early . |
| 13 | I was nervous before I went on . |
| 14 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude , exhausted by the long ride from Paris and a late night of in-toxication , moaned something unintelligible as I got out of bed , rolled over and promptly went back to sleep . |
| 16 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 17 | ‘ It was very dark when I got up today , ’ I began , trying to speak distinctly but without raising my voice . |
| 18 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 19 | She was also mightily relieved when I gave up wearing sweaters on TV-am and reverted to jacket and tie . |
| 20 | The mortar team in the orchard were delighted when I turned up with ten fresh fish which were cooked immediately . |
| 21 | and then it 's right warm when I come in . |
| 22 | The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away . |
| 23 | With the work on the campaign and the success we 'd heard she 'd had with it , would she find me too limited when I got out ? |
| 24 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 25 | I asked him , but he was already asleep and I drove on to Huacho , wondering what sort of a man Gómez would turn out to be and why Iris Sunderby had broken her journey at Lima and driven up to Cajamarca . |
| 26 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 27 | You glad that I cleaned up ? |
| 28 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 29 | I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen . |
| 30 | But the prospect of even more income from the delivery , made it all the more imperative that I got on and off Fraxilly safely . |