Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 4 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you would prefer me to drive I can drive , ’ said the man . |
| 6 | anyway he walked , he was only away about twenty minutes you know he wanted to get the car and for me to drive I thought well er |
| 7 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 8 | Not a one of them realized I was not human . |
| 9 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 10 | It took four of them to carry me . |
| 11 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 12 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 13 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 14 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 15 | One day , one of them asked me , ‘ Have you ever seen any of our Struldbrugs ? ’ |
| 16 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 17 | It made me think I was going to abuse my own kids . |
| 18 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 19 | Er ye well er , it was when , no let me think I went to Ipswich , I did a till the First War ended . |
| 20 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 21 | I prefer Beethoven , actually I 'm not sure I do prefer Beethoven , but had you said Bach I would have preferred that , but I do n't see that that I mean you 're implying that that makes me better , or at least makes me think I 'm better than somebody who likes Madonna , and that I do n't agree with . |
| 22 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 23 | B H did , she used to say school run Tuesday evening , do n't make any fun , she used to block it out , the time that she wanted me to see me . |
| 24 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |
| 25 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 26 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 27 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 28 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 29 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 30 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |