Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe use me as the basis for tissue culture , body-bank , whatever . ’ |
| 2 | I wrote : ‘ These are the questions that really bug me about you . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 4 | Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book . |
| 5 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 6 | By the time I was thirteen I already had a 36-inch bust , and during games lessons other girls would snigger , make remarks , and generally treat me like an abnormality . |
| 7 | She had a soft voice and always put me at my ease . |
| 8 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 9 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 10 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 11 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
| 12 | ‘ And please forgive me for butting in on you like this . |
| 13 | Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ? |
| 14 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |
| 15 | ‘ And I 'm supposed to feel flattered , ’ she enquired waspishly , ‘ that you should deign to visit my humble office and actually compliment me on something ? ’ |
| 16 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like that — but please put me by a window . ’ |