Example sentences of "[verb] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day as she tripped forward to greet me I had , without pausing to wonder if my embrace would be acceptable to her , bent down and kissed her . |
| 2 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 3 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 4 | Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often . |
| 5 | For example every day when the came to see me she wore a beautiful new sari . |
| 6 | coming round to see me I suppose she does n't want anything to eat cos she brought a sandwich with her from work , she took a sandwich to work with her hello you , nearly food time , have you smelt something to eat Ricky ? |
| 7 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry , Nicky Scott Wilson , but if you want to see me you 'd better make proper arrangements . ’ |
| 9 | Every time you want to see me you have to make an excuse , have n't you , tell a fib of some sort ? |
| 10 | If you need to see me you know where I 'm to be found . |
| 11 | ‘ Mollie will lend me hers . ’ |
| 12 | I had reckoned that an accusation of fear would sting the Maggot , and even before he interrupted me he had banked the plane westwards . |
| 13 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 14 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 15 | Whenever she met me she talked about her as your ‘ fancy woman ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Come on , when you met me you knew damn well what I did . |
| 17 | Trust me I said not truss me , trust me . |
| 18 | Like Kath Kath er trust me I 'm a doctor . |
| 19 | I mean it just appalled me I think that we are all of us , if you like to a degree , tarred with the same brush are n't we ? |
| 20 | ‘ A friend lent me hers for a few weeks . |
| 21 | I says if they lent me it erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else . |
| 22 | No but he does n't fancy me he said . |
| 23 | ‘ This ABS thing fascinates me You just ca n't get it to skid , can you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't heard of anybody , ’ he said casually , ‘ but if the lawyers asked me they might have asked somebody else before … |
| 25 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 26 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 27 | I was n't gay , and when somebody asked me I 'd say , ‘ No , I 'm not ’ , which was the truth . |
| 28 | If he asked me I would turn him down . ’ |
| 29 | Just by naming them does n't commit them to do anything , they may say Well he never asked me I 'm not doing that . |
| 30 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |