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 | ‘ Do n't be stupid , ’ I snap , and I suck on my Jameson 's . |
| 14 | Crilly comes to my bedside with a neatly prepared square of foil and a tube , and I suck from it happily . |
| 15 | I think most fundamentally she transmitted her inner core of pride and I acquired from him both doggedness of purpose and the confidence to decide what was just and unjust in the world as I met it . |
| 16 | There 's blood in your body , and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze . |
| 17 | And I get into kinks , coughing |
| 18 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 19 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 20 | I also wondered — I was only seven — if the fire had anything to do with Alf Norris and I looking into the boiler room the day before ! |
| 21 | Sally and I looked for something local and intense , a compromise between a traverse of the Meije in the wake of great names , or a pass crossing in the wake of a continental alpine course . |
| 22 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 23 | and I looked into his bronze , |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 25 | She swept them out , following them , fearing perhaps that they would add to Harry 's fatigue , and he and I looked at each other across the suddenly empty room in a shared fundamental awareness . |
| 26 | Both Coconut and I looked at him in astonishment . |
| 27 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 28 | Karen and I looked at each other , half-amused , half-disturbed . |
| 29 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 30 | It took me about three or four minutes to rescue it and I looked at my ‘ prize ’ . |