Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sure that will be covered this word responsibility frightens me or makes me apprehensive . |
| 3 | Is she alright now without them or does she have to wear them part of the time ? |
| 4 | It recognizes abnormal cells , destroys them or walls them off . |
| 5 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah he is oh heck I 've got to get the news in have n't I that worries me . |
| 7 | They must have drunk deeply because the very next week in her column Beatrice introduces her readers to a ‘ charming book of Breton verse by Max Jacob ’ , translates a poem of his and describes him as ‘ one of the few classical critics in the world ’ . |
| 8 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 9 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 10 | I 've got the Graham wanted to well unfortunately Graham this one 's a bit dangerous so I 'm having to do it so if anything goes wrong it 's me that gets it and not you . |
| 11 | And it is only the love of Christ in me that enables me to say that . |
| 12 | Trouble is , there 's only me that eats it ! |
| 13 | I 've always been a worker yet there is a part of me that feels I could end up like that , too . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sure it 's me that muddles her ? |
| 15 | The other element is that the county 's are so dangerous , and that 's actually quite unusual , they 're so dangerous that we consider they present a risk and it has to be me that considers it presents a risk to life , and I can either restrict the use of premises , but I can prohibit the use entirely . |
| 16 | It 's usually me that does it . |
| 17 | There must be something in me that remembers her , Ruth thought ; it ca n't be a total blank . |
| 18 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 19 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 20 | It 's not them that pays it int it you know |
| 21 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 22 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 23 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 24 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 25 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 26 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 27 | My daughter hugs me and tells me how proud she is . |
| 28 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |
| 29 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 30 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |