Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] i [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 2 | Used to scare me so bad . |
| 3 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 4 | The real Louise Müller 's sister is visiting Vienna , and called to see me earlier this evening . |
| 5 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 6 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 7 | was meant to phone me back this morning when she 'd talked to her boss , but has n't , and I do n't know her work no. to chase her , but will let you know as soon as I hear ! |
| 8 | I am just lucky that my fish have survived and have flourished to give me so much pleasure . |