Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb -s] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 4 | That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her . |
| 5 | That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her . |
| 6 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |