Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 2 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 3 | And she was pulling her trolley , pushing mine and there was me toddling up there thinking , This trolleys become |
| 4 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 6 | You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it , |
| 7 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 8 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 9 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 10 | What happened in the days before freezers I mean well like going back to this you know when folk did n't have power . |
| 11 | And the trous I mean the jacket never I mean very rarely does a suit jacket style change . |
| 12 | Erm okay well in that case er what sort of time scale are we working to I mean how soon do you need somebody here ? |
| 13 | Yeah , oh we should explore that as , you know , erm I mean how far have do people like Communicado and |
| 14 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 15 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 16 | how long ago , I mean how long has it been there ? |
| 17 | I mean how often do you use six ? |
| 18 | I mean often actually producing pieces of writing is , is , is quite a , you know , sort of long drawn out sort of er iterative process I suppose in , in mathematical terms erm you know you kind of go through it again and again erm I mean that 's one thing you ca but obviously that 's quite time consuming er |
| 19 | I mean really severely handicapped so they really need sort of helpers with them for you know at least fifty percent of the day or something . |
| 20 | He had to go and they would I think actually sometimes had to lay out the body as well . |
| 21 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 22 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 23 | I sit there quietly revising my priorities as far as expending grief goes . |
| 24 | If I lo , if I sit out there looks , looking sorry for myself then somebody will take me . |
| 25 | The metal I pick up usually has some shape to it . |
| 26 | ‘ I got pretty badly worked . |
| 27 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 28 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 29 | Well I got up there started fucking going for it . |
| 30 | I I got really really fed up . |