Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 2 | Now hear this : I will take provisions only if you take me to Elaine and provide both of us with the things I ask for . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Only if you want me to . |
| 4 | I was accustomed to a lonely bed long before she left me for someone else . ’ |
| 5 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 6 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 7 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't go in with her , not unless she wants me to . |
| 10 | There was another roar of laughter when the old lady , her voice changing , said , ‘ All right , I will behave , not because you tell me to but because our dear Henry here will die of shock in a moment . ’ |
| 11 | Mum knows , just before you get me into trouble . |
| 12 | Just before you tell me about yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 14 | ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig . |
| 15 | I 've come home before you wanted me to , have n't I ? |
| 16 | BELVILLE : You must bear with me ever when you find me in the wrong . |
| 17 | I knew nothing about this convicting work of the Spirit in her , until a week later when she rang me from Halifax and asked , ‘ Does God really harden people 's hearts ? ’ |
| 18 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 19 | There were references in the last two meetings and two quiffs from Liz and Peter erm , which I can dig out if you want me to . |
| 20 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 21 | So even now if you wake me at three o'clock in the morning and sing me one bar of Der Rosenkavalier I will be able to carry on from where you start ! |
| 22 | ‘ But I can help yer now if yer want me to , ’ I said eagerly . |
| 23 | " No , John , they 'll come up through the front , " said Fielding , his arm on my shoulder now as he steered me across the floor . |
| 24 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 26 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't because you believed me to be unavailable , to keep me at bay , by any chance ? ’ |
| 28 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 29 | ‘ And , even when you told me about the break-in , I knew it was n't really that . ’ |
| 30 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |