Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 2 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
| 3 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 4 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 5 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 6 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 7 | The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind . |
| 8 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 11 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 12 | know me and name me to each other have they |
| 13 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 14 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 15 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 16 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 17 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 18 | If they decide to arrest me and throw me in gaol , my plans will have to be drastically altered … ’ |
| 19 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 22 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 23 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 24 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 25 | Release me and restore me to the ground ; |
| 26 | Why do you add to my miseries by haunting me and confronting me with my sins ? ’ |
| 27 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 28 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 29 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 30 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |