Example sentences of "i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 2 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 3 | Retailing itself has taught me nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ It has brought me nothing but trouble . |
| 5 | ‘ The course owes me nothing , ’ he said . |
| 6 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 7 | Someone drove it right to the door and charged me nothing . |
| 8 | I bought just one pair and , sure enough , they gave me nothing but trouble . |
| 9 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 10 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 11 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are . |
| 13 | ‘ You owe me nothing , Mikhail . |
| 14 | He has given me nothing but total loyalty and respect at a time when I needed it most . |
| 15 | For me nothing could be more important than the scandal of world poverty in the late 20th Century . |
| 16 | And it costs me nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ You forbid me nothing . ’ |
| 18 | Hawkins said : ‘ Van Gelder told me nothing of this . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With the deepest respect , Admiral , you 'll forbid me nothing . |
| 20 | Second , Iago 's terrible silence once his deceptions have been exposed : ‘ Demand me nothing , what you know , you know , /From this time forth I never will speak word ’ ( V.ii.304f. ) : this refusal of language is the logical outcome of the destructive egoism with which Iago has put himself outside , and in his own eyes above , society . |
| 21 | I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’ |
| 22 | It never occurred to me that if I had an accident and SURVIVED , my life insurance would pay me nothing . ’ |
| 23 | In any case , you owe me nothing . " |
| 24 | The room told me nothing . |
| 25 | He gave me nothing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But your trouble , ’ I said , ‘ you have told me nothing of your trouble — ‘ |
| 27 | He never told me nothing , ’ I blurted . |
| 28 | I rode home along with him : he never used to charge me nothing because I used to deliver these here up to the shops for him . |
| 29 | ‘ Maurice told me nothing of it , you know . |
| 30 | ‘ If you invite me nothing could keep me away . ’ |