Example sentences of "i [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ In a funny way it 's helped to give me back my sense of independence , and I do more physically than I did before . |
| 32 | Given me back my confidence , I mean . ’ |
| 33 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 34 | You gave me back my father . ’ |
| 35 | Imagine my Ma 's response to : ‘ She 's taken my best smile , ’ or , ‘ Give me back my hug round the legs . ’ |
| 36 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Give me back my key ! ’ she demanded . |
| 38 | Why , give me back my plate . |
| 39 | and in the middle of the night they took me out my bed and left me |
| 40 | ‘ I 'll have to ask Granny For&am to let me clean my shoes again when I get to her cottage , ’ she told herself , as she picked her way between the puddles and muddy ruts of the lane . |
| 41 | ‘ Come on , Raff , ’ she told the ginger kitten , ‘ it 's just you and me now your brothers have found good homes , and you make a good hot-water bottle . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I suppose you wo n't want to see me now your little mystery 's been cleared up ? ’ |
| 43 | You are part of me now my dear , |
| 44 | Be propitious while I speak — hast thou not made me here thy substitute ? ’ |
| 45 | What I saw was scary enough to make me lower my hand . |
| 46 | When I was at me lowest me wife beat me , she excelled herself and managed magnificently when the family 's happiness depended on it . |
| 47 | ‘ Why ca n't you just let me live my life how I want to ? ’ |
| 48 | You come with me then my darling I 'll take you ! |
| 49 | Woman after woman has told me how their partners could n't bear them to cry . |
| 50 | tell me how their dreams are formed |
| 51 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 52 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 53 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 54 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 55 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 56 | One young woman who talks lovingly about her tears , told me how her father used to say , ‘ It 's Fred inside you watering the iris in his window boxes ’ . |
| 57 | I used to tease her about being so house-proud and she 'd tell me how her Aunt Rosina brought her up to do everything just so . ’ |
| 58 | The next morning , she asked me how my night had been . |
| 59 | WE WERE watching the sun go down beyond Kaena Point when Michael asked me how my book on the North Shore was coming along . |
| 60 | ‘ Even at that point , NME writers would still ask me how my mates The Cockroaches were doing , ’ he says . |