Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 2 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 3 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 4 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 5 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 6 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 7 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 8 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
| 9 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I talked to him , ’ said Andrus . |
| 11 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 12 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 13 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 14 | The last card I had from you , you were working in London . |
| 15 | Yes , even Miss Sowerby — ’ and breaking the tension I smiled to her and said , ‘ Sorry about the ‘ even ’ . ’ |
| 16 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 17 | Because ee er , some of the subjects I brought to him but he did n't know nothing about them ! |
| 18 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 19 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 20 | That was all the thanks I got from him . |
| 21 | Oh they , on the last interview I went to they said you no need to have had experience |
| 22 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 23 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 24 | The words I dreamed for you , |
| 25 | The ground itself is not as harsh as the words I felt beneath me for that one curious moment at the Treasury . |
| 26 | I remembered to re-xerox the pencil pictures I did of you and John in 1975 , so I enclose them . |
| 27 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 28 | He probably reprogrammed the courier I sent for her , insisted on a hidden message-box to record her arrival , the whole works . |
| 29 | It was very mean of me , I know , after the sweet beginning of your letter & the pleasure I had from it , to be very angry at the end . |
| 30 | I rang Sorrel 's flat from Sergeant Purvis 's desk , and as he was out to lunch I sat on it and rearranged his pencils in a petty and thoroughly satisfying bit of vandalism . |