Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] i [vb past] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 7 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 8 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 9 | I meant to be fond of her but I found her tiring . |
| 10 | takes the mick out of her and I started him |
| 11 | ‘ I 've — er — seen quite a bit of him since I met him when he called for you that time , ’ Leith managed , the ever-present ‘ if you value your job ’ threat there in her head again . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't see any sign of him when I passed his house , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 13 | I did n't think there were any prints on the other rounds , and there ca n't be any of mine because I handled them in gloves . |
| 14 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 16 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 17 | Now as she , I flapped it , I got hold of it and I flapped it so it , I sort of bounced about , she sort of bumped along |
| 18 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 19 | But he came and sorted me out and I asked , I said I 'll see what I can do and I got hold of it and I did it for him . |
| 20 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |