Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
| 2 | I 've always been a worker yet there is a part of me that feels I could end up like that , too . |
| 3 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 4 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 5 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 6 | My right arm , he forced around in front of me and pressed it hard on to the table so that the fingers splayed out just in front of my face . |
| 7 | ‘ The other girls in the home make fun of me and steal my clothes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 9 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 10 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 11 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 12 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 13 | Then he stopped in front of me and put his face very close to mine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She squats down in front of me and puts her elbows on my knees . |
| 16 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 17 | And she put my head on my hands on the desk in front of me and believe me , I went to sleep , it was must have been very , very new , compared to being at home and perhaps being laid there . |
| 18 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 19 | Take care of me and understand my needs magically . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And is that how you show your resentment , by stripping off naked in front of me and rippling your sexy body invitingly ? ’ |
| 22 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 23 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 24 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 25 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 26 | ‘ So it was one of them that kidnapped us ? ’ said Twoflower . |
| 27 | William Hyatt had been told too often as a child that ‘ the sins of the fathers ’ shall be visited on the ‘ third and fourth generation of them that hate Him ’ . |
| 28 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 29 | The girl stacking the guide books looked at both of them but said nothing . |
| 30 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |