Example sentences of "i [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tommy Allen was tellin' me 'is wife 's pregnant , ’ she began . |
| 2 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 3 | ‘ Find me my shoes , there 's a pet . ’ |
| 4 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 5 | It was n't the nuns , Harriet , who gave me my guilt , my conscience ( do you have a conscience , Harriet ? ) . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 7 | To humour me my patient father agrees yet again to my choice of film . |
| 8 | Of course my salary is important to me , but it does n't give me my life style . |
| 9 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
| 10 | ‘ The quiet but fervent agreement of Griffiths and the quick glance of understanding between those two revealed to me my own frivolity . |
| 11 | I still live in hope , though , always changing hairdressers , praying the next one will give me my perfect style . ’ |
| 12 | Marcel gave me my hands and a generation later , I gave David Bowie his wings . |
| 13 | The nurses seemed overwhelmed , and when I did find one with a moment to spare , she told me my patient had died half an hour earlier . |
| 14 | That dog turd , so much more bitterly prosaic than any arrow , gave me my Achilles ' heel . |
| 15 | ‘ Cost me my last five bob . |
| 16 | Gloria give me my name like one of them stars . |
| 17 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 18 | It was the prostitutes in Douai and Lille and Paris who gave me my first induction into their ways and wiles . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's no good coming the big enigma with me my girl . |
| 20 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 21 | Luke wo n't touch anything but top-quality meat , swears his mistress , who envies me my own two gannets . |
| 22 | Bring me my arrows of desire . |
| 23 | At the end , everything explained in detail , North turned to the attorney general and said ‘ Since you have n't read me my rights , does this count ? ’ |
| 24 | She said she envied me my position , where people always did what I requested . |
| 25 | I had taken with me my copy of Pascal 's Pensées and by a nice irony came upon a passage which echoed the motto for the ‘ new thinking ’ of János Kádár : |
| 26 | If you had only given me my wife and children : Dayenu ! ’ |
| 27 | As long as you leave me my leader column , I … |
| 28 | You must allow me my minor gratifications ! |
| 29 | She told me my father died in the camp in 1944 . |
| 30 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |