Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do !
2 Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately .
3 This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world .
4 I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge .
5 I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known .
6 If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much .
7 Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy .
8 Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots .
9 As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud .
10 Karen came and asked me I says alright .
11 ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’
12 From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced .
13 Trust me I said not truss me , trust me .
14 And he turned to me I said not likely !
15 George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant
16 H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons .
17 " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him .
18 But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers .
19 And something told me I had n't behaved too well .
20 Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined .
21 Arrayed against me I had both the TUC-affiliated unions and the Royal College of Nursing , the professional organization representing the nurses .
22 ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask .
23 There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up .
24 After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’
25 She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance .
26 Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers .
27 Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’
28 ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am .
29 If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty .
30 The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger .
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