Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] 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 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 7 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 8 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 9 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 10 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
| 13 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 14 | He grabbed me and pulled me to him and started to kiss me , on the cheeks and nose and forehead and hair . |
| 15 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 16 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 17 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 18 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 19 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 20 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 21 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 22 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 23 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 24 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 25 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
| 26 | It 's you that told me about him was n't it ? |
| 27 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 29 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 30 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |