Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Me got them buttons |
| 3 | me got it in |
| 4 | Me got it |
| 5 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 9 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 10 | He sent a postcard to a well known photographer stating : ‘ Your cover shot of me moved me enormously . |
| 11 | Create in me a dean heart O God , and put a new and right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence , and take not thy Holy Spirit from me . |
| 12 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 13 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 14 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 15 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 16 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 17 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 18 | I asked them , ‘ How much rehearsal do I get ? ’ |
| 19 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 20 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 21 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 22 | So I asked them . |
| 23 | I asked them if they were n't several billion years too late . |
| 24 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 25 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 26 | Before anyone commenced the diet I asked them to seek approval from their G.P. There was no doubt from the comments I received that their doctors were delighted with the format of the diet and were equally delighted with the results it achieved . |
| 27 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 28 | I asked them , and this is what they told me . |
| 29 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 30 | I asked them who this mythical creature was , but each time they just said , " You 'll see when you meet him . " |