Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 3 | I remember a lingering preference for Ruth Etting because she reminded me of Marion Brown . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 5 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 6 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 7 | While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation . |
| 8 | This garden ( protected from the road on one side by huge , untidy gum trees , in a permanent state of reptilian slough , leaving the discarded bark hanging from the newly emerged , silvery trunks ) has for me so powerful a charm because it returns me to my childhood , with a complete collection of odours , insects , fragrances , ponds and over-vigorous plants . |
| 9 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 10 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 11 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's too bad , Claudia , because I 'm going to be your second skin until you lead me to Garry . ’ |
| 13 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 14 | Allison later told Mark : ‘ My first reaction when you told me about your work was to withdraw , and let you have all the credit , but that would have been Quixotic . ’ |
| 15 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 16 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 18 | He seemed his usual genial self as he greeted me in his new office . |
| 19 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 21 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 22 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 23 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 24 | I wo n't explain the method unless you want me to it 'll only muddle you . |
| 25 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 26 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 27 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 28 | Elaine did n't register my birth before she gave me to Mum , and no one seemed to know anything about her , or where she was from . |
| 29 | Erm confused as hell until somebody told me about having a pie . |
| 30 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |