Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say it 's silly of me but I thought we 'd wait till the coast was clear , so to speak , ’ she ended , smiling at her own accidental pun . |
| 2 | It shocked the life out of me when I realised you were a virgin . |
| 3 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 4 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 5 | IT frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 6 | ‘ It frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 7 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 9 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 10 | ‘ When he is standing in front of me and I know he is the person who has taken my daughter away — that is when it will be hard . |
| 11 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 12 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 13 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | Some people would say I make a lot of money out of them but I paint them with sincerity . |
| 15 | Some people would say I make a lot of money out of them but I paint them with sincerity . |
| 16 | Some some of them actually give you exemption from all of them although I think they 're |
| 17 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 18 | ‘ Fat Watt speaks of them when I ask him . ’ |
| 19 | She could n't help feeling guilty as she said smoothly , ‘ Why should I go off with one of them when I have you ? |
| 20 | and there were about three of them and I know they had shafts and me mother used to say keep away from those shafts |
| 21 | Because there 's quite a list of them and I think they explain many of the descriptive characteristics of o of goods or that Freud refers to . |
| 22 | I meant to be fond of her but I found her tiring . |
| 23 | I am very fond of her and I respect her as she respects me . ’ |
| 24 | takes the mick out of her and I started him |
| 25 | ‘ I 've — er — seen quite a bit of him since I met him when he called for you that time , ’ Leith managed , the ever-present ‘ if you value your job ’ threat there in her head again . |
| 26 | The message in the words sounded ominous to Joe 's ears , and he straightened up and said , ‘ Tell Harry I 'll be thinking of him and I hope he 'll be home soon . ’ |
| 27 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't see any sign of him when I passed his house , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 29 | I did n't think there were any prints on the other rounds , and there ca n't be any of mine because I handled them in gloves . |
| 30 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |