Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] i [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him . |
| 2 | ‘ See you later , Boyo , ’ he shouted after me as I set off , rifle over my shoulder , through the trees in the direction of Brigade H.Q |
| 3 | The eldest of the group who moved towards me as I jumped out of the van was no more than thirty . |
| 4 | He proposed to me and I said yes . |
| 5 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 6 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 7 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 8 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 9 | It just occurred to me that I do n't how many children Mr and Mrs Thomas had , but the only one who 's remembered is Dylan . |
| 10 | They formated on me and I led the formation back to the island . |
| 11 | Less cryptic was Barbara Bush , who once fumed at me after I made a similar enquiry : ‘ It 's none of your business and absolutely not … |
| 12 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 13 | A teacher came after me but I climbed through a hedge and sat tight for an hour or so . |
| 14 | The scent came with me as I walked , and I sensed a companionship . |
| 15 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 16 | Mr Mayor point of councillor letter came to me after I 'd already written which she will be aware long period . |
| 17 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 18 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 19 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
| 20 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 21 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 22 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 23 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 24 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 25 | It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother . |
| 26 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 27 | One TODAY reader , who refused to be named , said : ‘ There was a certain part which really happened to me and I thought the programme was real . |
| 28 | Nothing happened to me until I got off the Moon . |
| 29 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 30 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |