Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 2 | So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ? |
| 3 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 4 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 5 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 6 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 7 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 8 | That 's how I felt all the time ; this constant feeling that no-one wanted me to be there , no-one gave a f— about me . |
| 9 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 10 | ‘ I blame it on the fact that someone linked me with the US government , ’ he says . |
| 11 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 12 | ‘ You alone must decide what to do , ’ he replied , ‘ and now I must leave you , so that nobody suspects me of warning you . ’ |
| 13 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 14 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 15 | and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know |
| 16 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 17 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 18 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 19 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 20 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 22 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 23 | I LIKE that you tell me about it , your flesh impatient with words , you say : go inside me — yeah — yeah — no — more — and your body whiplashes head to toe , the ill-appreciated G spot , baby you got it . |
| 24 | ‘ I insist that you take me to a fastline terminal . |
| 25 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 27 | Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to . |
| 28 | And I do n't think that you own me after my day is over , Dr Cochrane . |
| 29 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 30 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |