Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 2 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 3 | ‘ I just looked at my books when I felt like it . |
| 4 | An Indian shawl went around my shoulders and I started toward the door . |
| 5 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 6 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 7 | The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so . |
| 8 | The tears were still pissing from my eyes when I fled to the can . |
| 9 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 10 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 11 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 12 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 13 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 14 | It burnt my feelings an' I went over there an' I just hit her . |
| 15 | I grasped her hair with both hands , binding her head against my loins while I came in her mouth , loudly and at some length . |
| 16 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 17 | My friends and I cycling in fontanellato , 1940 |
| 18 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
| 19 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 20 | I can not tell you my thoughts as I sat on the stand and watched the Arsenal playing far below their proper form . |
| 21 | I had just time to think what a help he was being when another boot landed in my guts and I gasped for air . |
| 22 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 23 | I hope they will never feel as frustrated with their parents as I felt with mine . |
| 24 | However , I disagree strongly with some of her comments and I begin by disagreeing with her that the north-east is as isolated as she thinks it is . |
| 25 | The army continued with its exercises and I continued with my life ; friends from the TA would join the regular army , returning months later with stories of how much tougher things were there . |
| 26 | Mrs Quigley held out her arms as I came into the hall . |
| 27 | Little terns fished out at sea ; I could hear their squabblings as I walked across the sand hills . |
| 28 | Look , can I wash me hands before I get into bed ? ’ |
| 29 | Mr. Jones and his boys and I went in the afternoon to take tea with a sexton , a shoemaker who lived in one of the suburbs . |
| 30 | But I have discussed all your arrangements and I approve of them . |