Example sentences of "i [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 32 | She kept talking over me so I told her to shut her face and cut her off . |
| 33 | ‘ When you have chosen the book you want , bring it to me so I can make a note of it and it 's yours for two weeks . |
| 34 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 35 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 36 | I wan na get enough be'ind me so I can look after 'em all . |
| 37 | My family did n't like me so I had to work hard . " |
| 38 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 39 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 40 | two defenders coming up , they 're probably going to get to me so I 'm going to pass it as soon as I get it . |
| 41 | She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’ |
| 42 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 43 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 44 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 45 | It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co . |
| 46 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |
| 47 | They did yoga-based classes quite near me so I started going once a week . |
| 48 | I did it , she said in a clear voice : I heard someone calling me so I got up and came downstairs . |
| 49 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 50 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 51 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |
| 52 | The Lucan case intrigued me so I told the police that I would consider working on it . |
| 53 | The remote control for the television was next to me so I pressed the ‘ on ’ button . |
| 54 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |
| 55 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 56 | Then , from Riva , ‘ You 're either going to have to get a tissue out of my skirt pocket and wipe my nose for me , or untie me so I can do it myself . ’ |
| 57 | Their pompous promises and grandiloquent phrases failed to convince me so I quickly took the air in the graveyard where all the wolfs-heads , villains and counterfeit men hid from the law . |
| 58 | ( I see my chaplain sniggering at me so I 'll voice my fear . |
| 59 | His watery blue eyes gazed bulbously at me so I let the fool have his way though Benjamin agreed with me . |
| 60 | ‘ He believes he can beat me so I 'm going to give him the opportunity to try . ’ |