Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 2 | Some bastard 's rumbled I 'm here — or thinks I am . |
| 3 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 4 | For nothing I do , no emergency procedure I try , frees me from wherever I 'm pinned down , or gets me back inside her . |
| 5 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 6 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He 's a good boy , he 's done nothing , they 've taken him away , I know he always comes home or sends me word if he 's going to be kept . ’ |
| 8 | Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’ |
| 9 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 10 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |
| 11 | I 'm sure that will be covered this word responsibility frightens me or makes me apprehensive . |
| 12 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 13 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 14 | It 's not a subject that fascinates me . |
| 15 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 16 | Otley said , holding me close and nibbling my ear in a way that drives me wild . |
| 17 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 19 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , well as you will appreciate , this is the spare uniform that fits me best , i.e. , it was made for someone only three inches shorter than I am . |
| 21 | go down and well that irritates me , so I 've so I 've give up that . |
| 22 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |
| 23 | Chantel , anyone that defies me will be here until four o'clock . |
| 24 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 25 | Why do I need this sleep that covers me |
| 26 | It 's nothing that intimidates me . |
| 27 | It 's nothing that intimidates me . |
| 28 | Anything that causes me distress … ’ |
| 29 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 30 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |