Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 2 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 3 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 4 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 5 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 6 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 7 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 8 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 9 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
| 10 | At once she bereaves me to money and cunt . |
| 11 | Anita drives me to Twickenham Clinic at seven . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Drives me up the wall |
| 14 | See the but er , this room drives me up the wall ! |
| 15 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 16 | It just drives me up the wall . |
| 17 | ‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | She drives me in my car and we do not say much . |
| 21 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 22 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 23 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 24 | That turns me on that does . |
| 25 | The sight of the boy turns me against myself , and all of you . ’ |
| 26 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 27 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 28 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 29 | But my contract of employment forbids me from getting involved in contentious politics ; I do so at the risk of having a court order taken out against me . |
| 30 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |