Example sentences of "i [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 2 | ‘ It was me that set her on fire ! ’ |
| 3 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 4 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 5 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 6 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 7 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 8 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 9 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 10 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 11 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 12 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 13 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 14 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
| 15 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 16 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 17 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 18 | He grabbed me and pulled me to him and started to kiss me , on the cheeks and nose and forehead and hair . |
| 19 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 20 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 22 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 23 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 24 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 25 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 26 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 27 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 28 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 29 | I could never remember how to do them , I mean if somebody , if someone sat with me and explained it to me and then I , and then I could do it , I would do |
| 30 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |