Example sentences of "[subord] i [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nick 's about seven years younger than me but he has tremendous talent . |
| 2 | Well , there was a porter there , called Len and he , he was eighteen and er of course you know well I I was as I said sixteen , so he was a bit older than me but he , whilst he was at Needham he said well when I 'm eighteen I 'll get my calling up papers . |
| 3 | The boys were younger than me but I remember them coming to school — and what a job that was for them . |
| 4 | John began the season better than me but I have fought to catch up . |
| 5 | I meet these guys who are six years younger than me and they 're going , ‘ You got ta check out The Doors , man ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd really like to run the 400 , but I would n't be disappointed if someone was running better than me and they decided to take him , ’ said Black , whose domestic pre-eminence was sensationally ended by Grindley in Barcelona . |
| 7 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 8 | He was about my age ( though he looked it ) but taller and stringier than me and he had a close-cropped beard but no moustache , which is usually a bad sign . |
| 9 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |
| 10 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 11 | You 're bigger than me , you 're stronger than me and you 've just proved you 're more violent than me . |
| 12 | And yet my s my oldest sister she was three years older than me and she could n't remember him . |
| 13 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 14 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 15 | Andrew 's a a little bit better on layout than me and I 'm |
| 16 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 17 | and he 's he 's a bit younger than me and I 've gone come on then give us a kiss , like this , and he 's gone like that , I thought , just there like this and I 've leant over and went just there . |
| 18 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 19 | All I know is that there are better people in , that , are more intelligent people that are better informed about than me or you and they deemed it that we 've got something to fear against and I 'm willing to take that . |
| 20 | I 'm I 'm I 'm interested in you you you doing more of the work than me if we can . |
| 21 | Well I 'll tomorrow morning phone them up find out exactly what time , and register you rather than me if it 's you know if I ca n't get to it . |
| 22 | than me if it 's er fucking craftsmanship you 're on about . |
| 23 | Doctor 's obviously a more frugal character than me because he had this room and the radiator was turned off . |
| 24 | Oh two or three years before , only it turned out , after a time , that the men were earning more money than me because I , the bonus , you understand , it was a good thing for the firm , it was a good thing for the men . |
| 25 | I am a self-contained person : neat and elegant : or was until I met Eleanor , who , disgraced , childless , alone , sprawled and wriggled against the shiny black sofa with the big red flowers , and I knew I would rather be her , her life out of control , than me as I was with Lou ; a woman whom an editor could describe as ‘ the mistress of controlled reportage ’ . |
| 26 | Dave Brock used to go onstage in a lab-coat , so me and me mates used to finish school and still wear our lab-coats everywhere . |
| 27 | Me dad still used to batter us , so me and me brothers and sisters all got put back into care . |
| 28 | Merson , against my previous judgement , played better than I though he could ! |
| 29 | No one would be more grateful than I if I could stop looking at every penny , but you wo n't catch Amsterdam so you might as well stop trying . |
| 30 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |