Example sentences of "[pers pn] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 2 | To gaze on thee I left the smoaking Pail ; |
| 3 | In thee I defy all men , their worst hates , |
| 4 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 5 | Experience next to thee I owe , best guide , not following thee I have remained ignorance . |
| 6 | Experience next to thee I owe , best guide , not following thee I have remained ignorance . |
| 7 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 8 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 10 | It seemed to me I owed him some explanation . |
| 11 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 12 | ‘ I also pointed out that if you scratch me I bite , ’ he reminded her softly . |
| 13 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 14 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 15 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 16 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 17 | You were looking at me I knew you were going to say that |
| 18 | As the wave of relief flooded through me I saw Mr Bailes climbing over the wall from the next field . |
| 19 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 20 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 21 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
| 22 | If they cause trouble with me I cause trouble with them it 's as simple as that . |
| 23 | Er it did occur to me I mean I was , in my last church , the for for completely different reasons , the question of the timing of the church services , was brought up . |
| 24 | One of us , Mary and me I mean , always checked . |
| 25 | But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ? |
| 26 | Er it 's immaterial to me I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm totally unprejudiced . |
| 27 | As Maggie 's talking to me I mean you can see like my here I mean I 've got all sorts , as you would use that , those pages for , there 's notes as I 'm going through of things that we were doing and er the university and , and everything like that and there 's other parts of it that , I mean the , the things that you would come back to and elaborate more on |
| 28 | One thing she told me I mean , Janine will tell you herself . |
| 29 | Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit . |
| 30 | He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would |