Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 2 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 3 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 4 | By now G. is no longer suspicious of me but turns out to be a lively , talkative , and intelligent man . |
| 5 | They were expressing the part of me that saw metaphysics as some weird science-fiction fantasy ! |
| 6 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
| 7 | There 's a part of me that says ‘ Its OK to eat ’ , but another part tugs me back and stops me eating . |
| 8 | But so is that part of me that feels alien in this country , lonely behind my wall of defences , inarticulate in my deepest pain . |
| 9 | There is a small part of me that feels that , on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends , I should welcome what the Leader of the House has said . |
| 10 | I 've always been a worker yet there is a part of me that feels I could end up like that , too . |
| 11 | Well , I must admit there 's a bit of me that thrives slightly on the exam syndrome — something that gets the adrenalin flowing rather like ‘ first nights ’ . |
| 12 | So there were parts of me that watched the naming ceremony for the new catapult with some amusement , even contempt . |
| 13 | As though intense emotions — jealousy , rage , unreasoning desire — are all the parts of me that have always been missing . ’ |
| 14 | On the other hand there 's a part of me that rejoices , that is glad he paid the way he did , that for once the world worked the way it 's supposed to , punishing the wrongdoer … and that saddens and sickens me too , because I think that this must be the way Andy feels all the time . |
| 15 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 16 | in front of me and throw out carton into the road , winds his window up again . |
| 17 | Then I slowly stand up , and they see the length of me and back away . |
| 18 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 19 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 20 | I fixed my chin firmly on the metal in front of me and obeyed the instructions . |
| 21 | Dad flushed and let go of me and went to sit down again . |
| 22 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My right arm , he forced around in front of me and pressed it hard on to the table so that the fingers splayed out just in front of my face . |
| 25 | ‘ The other girls in the home make fun of me and steal my clothes . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 27 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 28 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 29 | what was expected of me and encouraged |
| 30 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |