Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I checked out other guitar ads in the October issue . |
| 2 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 3 | And so I went back two months after . |
| 4 | So I lent out some of his books , and they straight away came back and said , ‘ He 's not Irish , he 's Scottish . ’ |
| 5 | So I brought about twenty-two earthquakes |
| 6 | I get int car , and it 's warm so I end up switching heater and winding window down . |
| 7 | So I phoned around various contacts to see what it would cost me to have a tank made up by the ‘ local chap that most enthusiasts and many dealers tend to have tucked away somewhere . |
| 8 | Thus I stripped out all Wavebreaker 's unnecessary furniture and equipment , and I installed extra fresh-water tanks and fuel bunkers . |
| 9 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
| 10 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 11 | But my ex-husband says I 'm inclined to be intimidating and also I give out powerful signals that I 'm desperate to get another husband . |
| 12 | Some arsehole right is going to pick up and say oh well I phoned up this and y'know and then phoned the bloody managing director |
| 13 | Well I bought up three children |
| 14 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 17 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 18 | Then I sorted out some ten ps for the phone and rifled through my diary ( The Sex Maniac 's Diary — it was a Christmas present , not my idea ) for Jo 's number . |
| 19 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 20 | We went to , did I tell you when we wanted a statement , and Mary said where 's that money gone ? on the seventh so then I come out this is fifty pound , twenty pound fifteen pound took hundred and forty pound , paid it in , in two days got nothing ! |
| 21 | ‘ But then I found out all the others were too — Barbra Streisand and Gene Kelly , the director , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 23 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 24 | We reached Afdam Station on 19 December , four days after leaving Bahdu , and from there I went up next day by train to Addis Ababa . |
| 25 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 26 | Actually I checked out all about |