Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 2 | At this staging camp I picked up some mail . |
| 3 | On handing back the computer I put aside any previous prejudices and purchased my own . |
| 4 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , of course I had n't any . |
| 6 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 7 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 8 | The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope . |
| 9 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
| 10 | Erm while the rest er live in the lap of luxury I mean maybe that 's a well I do n't know I do n't think it is an exaggeration really the way things are heading . |
| 11 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 12 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 13 | Although not in our corporate style of typeface I wonder how many holidaymakers felt uncontrollable urges to contact one of our sales outlets on their return from Majorca . |
| 14 | In the instant before Laura replaced the bung I understood how that ancient Japanese potter might have flung himself into those dazzling fountains . |
| 15 | This fortunately the village was never to know , but later on in the war I found how much trouble units of this kind could cause . |
| 16 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 17 | As I caught his eye I realized how much I wanted to hold him in my arms again , and squeeze his rolls of fat . |
| 18 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 19 | He played one record I liked so much I decided to go out and buy it . |
| 20 | Now the other gentleman I liked very much . |
| 21 | At school the next day I hurt so much I could hardly bear to stay sitting down . |
| 22 | Every second day I wash out this room — because it 's only lino . |
| 23 | I rather like a lot of the G Plan stuff I like very much . |
| 24 | That night I cried so much — I never felt so far away from anything I knew and I 'd never missed my mother so much in my life . |
| 25 | I am fortunate to live on one of the clouds in his paintings , with the art I love so much ’ . |
| 26 | Ee god I wonder how many times that 's been said . |
| 27 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 28 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Every leave I tie up all the letters I 've had since Stan 's last , then start again when he goes back , ’ she said . |
| 30 | The style of life , the quality of life I like very much in this country . |