Example sentences of "i [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 2 | That an' the chance ter 'elp me build up the business so yer could get some money be'ind yer . |
| 3 | ‘ In me garter at the top of me stocking . ’ |
| 4 | Conveniently , Donald John MacDonald , Manager of Castlebay Branch , was waiting to help me fill in the hour before the Glasgow based Loganair Twin Otter was due to come in to pick up those flying on to Tiree and Glasgow . |
| 5 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 6 | Through reflecting on and articulating aspects of my Christian life and discipleship — my hopes and fears , my successes and failures — with someone who will help me look for the Spirit 's direction , my private world becomes shared , I can make more sense of my pilgrimage and continue in it supported . |
| 7 | ‘ And I want some of you to help me look for the others . |
| 8 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 9 | I was somehow reversing that pivotal moment in my eidetic career eight years before , when Mr Broadhurst had bade me look in his waistcoat pocket and then made his move . |
| 10 | ‘ He said he wished me luck in case he did n't get the chance today . |
| 11 | ‘ People look at me kind of surprised , ’ he says . |
| 12 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 13 | Me with me chest like this . ’ |
| 14 | He was having it off with me sister at one time . |
| 15 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 16 | But by God , they shall find me stick in their gullets and rip their bellies open . ’ |
| 17 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 18 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 19 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
| 20 | Fear not , for you shall see me fight by the help of God and holy Mary Mother ; my heart kindles because you are here ! |
| 21 | He said : it gives me hope for the future of the planet that people can work for a solution to poverty and problems and can enjoy life at the same time . |
| 22 | He escorted me part of the way to their headquarters , then left me . ’ |
| 23 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 24 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 25 | If Dad was alive he 'd give me money for the bike like a shot . |
| 26 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 27 | While he was at college , he got a Saturday job with Austin Reed , the men 's outfitters , ‘ which gave me experience of a real shop-floor environment — right at the front line of customer service . |
| 28 | Francis had me watch over him since he was a kid and his mother could n't cope . |
| 29 | LADY DAVERS : God give me patience with thee . |
| 30 | Discontent with our literary projects seem to have provoked in me discontent of another , more general , kind : for I found my philosophical tutelage increasingly unsatisfactory . |