Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times .
2 The chap was furious and said he 'd put me in a cell without anyone on either side of me if I talked to you again . ’
3 I recall the amazing blue of a field fare 's sunlit back ( drab grey on a grey day ) ; the tantalising glimpses of a secretive water rail which crept and scuttled in the shelter of a ditch ( red bill , black and white striped flanks , richly streaked brown back , bluish-grey neck ) ; and the rusty red flanks of a redwing which shot up in front of me as I walked past willow scrub behind the barrier bank .
4 I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office .
5 ‘ He was a sort of out-front version of me and I identified with what he did a lot .
6 I was just trying to get past some people in front of me and I stepped off the pavement and the driver — he did n't have a chance .
7 When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there .
8 I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes .
9 Unconcerned by Peck 's manner , Noah replied , ‘ Nor I of you until I came to Oxfordshire to attend the wedding of my daughter .
10 His cap 's on the floor in front of him and I think about picking it up for him , cos maybe if he 's blind he do n't know he 's dropped it .
11 I 'm not bothered Kath because er er as I look at it it 's more for me to put in front of him when I get to him
12 That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’
13 I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to .
14 alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up
15 I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone .
16 I was so glad of it as I ran from the admission ward to my office and back .
17 Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on .
18 In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases .
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