Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | My Lords , for the reasons given I would however dismiss this appeal . |
| 3 | But whatever it was , he did n't think twice about sending his heavies to see me . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 5 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 've got a few minutes to spare I would like to see these fields that have caused so much bother . ’ |
| 7 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 8 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 9 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 10 | The glowing consumer reports about cycling the peaks and television commercials for aftershave showing hunky men rattling down sheer slopes of scree on bikes made me suspicious . |
| 11 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 12 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 13 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 14 | The smell of bread and baigels freshly from the ovens made me hungry . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 16 | Crowds make me paranoid and claustrophobic but Tod seeks and loves the company of crowds . |
| 17 | In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch . |
| 18 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 20 | But there are no birds to carry me . |
| 21 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 22 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 23 | For the reasons mentioned I would dismiss these appeals . |
| 24 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 25 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 26 | eight hours sleep I should think . |
| 27 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 28 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 29 | ‘ Gem swindlers asked me to lie ’ |
| 30 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |