Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 2 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 3 | It 's what the Godfathers might have in mind for when George goes that worries me . ’ |
| 4 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 5 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 6 | Crilly wakes and tells me about when he was little and slept in the same room as his father , while his sisters slept with his mother . |
| 7 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 8 | ) She sits in silence for a few minutes , simply to breathe in the company of others , then goes and brings me my soup , followed by potatoes , onion and a fried egg . |
| 9 | He turns and sees me and nods , then puts both hands beside his head . |
| 10 | I seethe with frustration , but he simply smiles and tells me not to fret . |
| 11 | He relaxes and tells me about a new band he is producing . |
| 12 | This is the question that constantly persecutes and torments me ’ , Beckmann wrote . |
| 13 | He 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums and helps me with my homework . |
| 14 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 15 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 16 | Even now when a bank statement comes that shows I 'm overdrawn , or the gas bill for the central heating seems enormous , my mind turns to quite inappropriate strategies , like boiling down the ends of soap , and lighting fires with candle ends and spills of screwed-up newspaper to save buying wood . |
| 17 | He comes and helps me off with my coat . |
| 18 | Actually , if she comes and stays I 'm gon na have trouble because of , I 'll have to get the boys ' tea . |
| 19 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 20 | The yellow shirt stops and hands me a plastic carrier bag containing the soiled foil , the roaches and the methadone bottles , compartmentalised in bags like specimens . |