Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | so half of me knew I was a woman |
| 2 | I had a nurse either side of me telling me to push , but I could n't push . |
| 3 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 4 | He sent a postcard to a well known photographer stating : ‘ Your cover shot of me moved me enormously . |
| 5 | Hundreds and hundreds of them , and none of them know me . |
| 6 | Finally , before they went away , one of them kissed me . |
| 7 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 8 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 9 | Then , coming back , one of them saw me , or perhaps my loose wing . |
| 10 | ‘ One of them touched me , ’ she said . |
| 11 | they will none of them help me . |
| 12 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 13 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 14 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think some of them recognize me , ’ Bill says . |
| 16 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 17 | After that , the two of them left me alone . |
| 18 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
| 19 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 20 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 22 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 23 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 24 | And of those girls in the pub , it was one of them told me about it — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I think I 'll wait until the film comes out , ’ one of them told me ‘ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger . ’ |
| 26 | One of them told me , ‘ We are the victims , the victims of reform . ’ |
| 27 | ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 29 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 30 | None of them told me about it . |