Example sentences of "of me [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say it 's silly of me but I thought we 'd wait till the coast was clear , so to speak , ’ she ended , smiling at her own accidental pun . |
| 2 | It shocked the life out of me when I realised you were a virgin . |
| 3 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 4 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 5 | IT frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 6 | ‘ It frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 7 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 9 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 10 | ‘ When he is standing in front of me and I know he is the person who has taken my daughter away — that is when it will be hard . |
| 11 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |