Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh let's have a carton of custard , seventy nine right , we 've got one of those , right I want pasteurized milk four pints one oh five , oh that 's not , no great saving is it ? |
| 2 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 3 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 4 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I prefer cold air to hot air , ’ he suggested urbanely , his eyes darkening with what could have been amusement at her spirited defence of her career . |
| 6 | It was a Top 30 of contemporary records , but the new entries were very unlikely , and obviously I favoured certain musicians , like T. Rex . |
| 7 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 8 | So I put Live Aid on . |
| 9 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 10 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
| 11 | So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal . |
| 12 | So I think other people have er a contribution to make which is , well it would be important . |
| 13 | So I think enlightened self interest . |
| 14 | So I have close contact with the family from from my childhood . |
| 15 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 16 | No , I mean I , cos I , you know I , i I spend a long time coarse fishing so I understand actual fishing for pleasure as opposed |
| 17 | So I drink pink gin . |
| 18 | Anyway I hope Steffi Graf wins Wimbledon . |
| 19 | Meanwhile I regard positive language as akin to positive discrimination : it is a stopgap measure , a necessary stage on the long historic journey toward liberation and justice . |
| 20 | Meanwhile I found other knitting groups right in ‘ my ’ province and took Arune with me to talk with the other women in it in the hope that they could answer the questions that I could n't . |
| 21 | In this case , the sooner I remove young Svend from Suzie the siren , and make him aware of his responsibilities towards his parents and his own future , the sooner I can resume a normal life ! |
| 22 | Also I had drunken row with Jack , day two , for which neither party could bring himself to apologize and which polluted friendship forever . |
| 23 | Also I dislike bureaucratic organisation , perhaps because of my early experience with CHE . |
| 24 | I was miserable at the time , but later I realised Heavenly Father was looking after me because if Aunt Mary had said play , we 'd have gone out , and I 'd have missed the breakthrough . |
| 25 | Two days later I saw dark clouds in the sky , and I knew that a storm was coming . |
| 26 | Inevitably I spent long periods sitting in the staff room waiting for staff to find time for an interview . |
| 27 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh of course there are always exceptions , but mainly I think romantic novelists are quite wrong . |
| 29 | Really I prefer abstract art , but it 's more difficult to sell . |
| 30 | Having chosen the frame , I wanted a plain light background that would clearly show off the design , so I used a fairly heavy cream fabric — very often I avoid white backgrounds as the contrast with the flowers is too stark and harsh . |