Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The agency will get me placed again as soon as I 'm ready . ’ |
| 2 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 3 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 4 | However , as month after month went by , I became more and more convinced that the real problem with the health service was a lack of management . |
| 5 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 6 | It was love at first sight for me and Danielle , and as the weeks went by I became more and more besotted . |
| 7 | As time passed I became more and more interested in the intriguing field of radio broadcasting , little knowing that this was only the beginning of a radio career lasting for the next 50 years . |
| 8 | Returning to our work Sid and I became more and more closely connected with Radio Station 1OAB and during the Annual General Meeting of the association that year I was appointed Programme Director . |
| 9 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 10 | I became more and more certain that John Carrow was not my father . ’ |
| 11 | Far from making any such admission , I became more and more fanatically energetic as the disease progressed . |
| 12 | I know that as I became more and more anorexic , I also became more and more despairing and , at the same time , because of my stubborn , isolated will , more and more determined to deny my despair by finding solace in despair itself . |
| 13 | I became more and more used to the Houys ' ideas and way of life . |
| 14 | As the day came nearer , I became more and more afraid . |
| 15 | I really like this poem , I became more and more moved with it as I grew to understand it more and I think the poem definitely works and Owen conquers it subtly , approaching a big issue , but he wins in telling us his message . |
| 16 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 17 | I asked politely but coldly . |
| 18 | I asked again and again . |
| 19 | Er yes chair , I 'm not going to repeat the point I made yesterday but simply to clarify that the proposal Mr has outlined is not a proposal incorporated in the deposit U D P . |
| 20 | I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path . |
| 21 | So I mean sooner or later would have been had to do , do up you know ? |
| 22 | It 's totally … it 's totally , I mean logically and legally , it 's a ridiculous distinction ; I do n't think the distinction is important — that what comes out in the end is the same thing ; I committed or omitted , however you want to put it — it 's all the same thing . |
| 23 | But I mean more or less so You 'll probably get a feel for when you 've got things . |
| 24 | and I mean really and honestly that not worth bothering to sew them up , they 'll do for work , but that 's all |
| 25 | I mean really and truly mum with all these shops that are about , why has she got ta go in that one ? |
| 26 | But I I , I mean really and truly I 'm moaning a bit but I , it 's not quite so bad being near there . |
| 27 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 28 | I mean once or twice when we unload it the beer barrel break and when they , be surprised you 'd never get it back together again . |
| 29 | I lived modestly but comfortably . |
| 30 | I hated the place when I lived there and yet today I had the odd sort of feeling that the house was just waiting for me to go and live in it again . ’ |