Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 2 | I die from loss , or I die from guilt , and either way I die . |
| 3 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 4 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 5 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 6 | Whenever Eugenia or I went near them , they stopped talking . |
| 7 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 8 | I always posted two sentries at night , more if the situation warranted it , and Omar or I checked at intervals to make sure they were awake . |
| 9 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 10 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 11 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 12 | Neither you nor I meddle in politics , but we live in the world , in society , and involuntarily ranks of people group themselves , |
| 13 | An me tremble at de knees |
| 14 | An me tink of all de people |
| 15 | Sticking plasters , safety-pins , lipstick , comb , bus pass , piece of string , rubber bands , Vick inhaler , dried rose-hips that I picked last autumn and forgot to plant , and a cracked , yellowing snap of Otley and me roller-skating at Margate . |
| 16 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 17 | Just before she died , she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room . |
| 18 | Would you like Bigwig and me to go over there first , by ourselves , and report back ? " |
| 19 | So here we are lying here just you and me thinking about things that we used to do babe , turning lady ! |
| 20 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 21 | We conducted a two year study to assess the effectiveness of the family smoking education and smoking and me projects in influencing smoking behaviour . |
| 22 | ‘ Ernie and me went to school with Johnny ; Sarah was older . ’ |
| 23 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |
| 24 | There there are three of us er , that is Mr Allenby Mr Heselton and me looking for an answer to a question which was about |
| 25 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 26 | Recently he 'd encouraged Allie and me to talk to him . |
| 27 | We again slept in the cab , Sean taking the bed and me improvising with an inflatable mattress across the driver and passenger seats . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 29 | There was a long pause during which a kind of stage fright seized me and perhaps him too : we remained in our positions , Richard sitting up in bed and me standing at the window , looking at each other helplessly like actors who have forgotten their lines . |
| 30 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |