Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement ’ . |
| 2 | I dare say it 's silly of me but I thought we 'd wait till the coast was clear , so to speak , ’ she ended , smiling at her own accidental pun . |
| 3 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 4 | Calvin Smith came in ahead of me but I beat the Pole Marian Woronin , who had run third at the previous European . |
| 5 | ‘ You are that part of me that I cut off , and I never have been and never shall be whole without you . ’ |
| 6 | And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times . |
| 7 | Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair . |
| 8 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , Shelley , there 's so much of me that I thought was dead , coming alive in this place . |
| 10 | There are parts of me that I do n't like … |
| 11 | Hello , yeah , Betty 's number , I 'm just having a recording done of me while I 've been in Harlow I 'm having it done now , yeah , er so I ca n't stop alright ? alright , bye , bye . |
| 12 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 13 | It shocked the life out of me when I realised you were a virgin . |
| 14 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's not what you thought of me when I tried to run from you in Glenshee . ’ |
| 17 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 18 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 19 | The chap was furious and said he 'd put me in a cell without anyone on either side of me if I talked to you again . ’ |
| 20 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ That was most improper of me if I did . |
| 22 | It would be a little discreditable of me if I did n't take it seriously ! ’ |
| 23 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 24 | I remember so clearly the day when the old seaman came to stay — I can almost see him in front of me as I write . |
| 25 | I recall the amazing blue of a field fare 's sunlit back ( drab grey on a grey day ) ; the tantalising glimpses of a secretive water rail which crept and scuttled in the shelter of a ditch ( red bill , black and white striped flanks , richly streaked brown back , bluish-grey neck ) ; and the rusty red flanks of a redwing which shot up in front of me as I walked past willow scrub behind the barrier bank . |
| 26 | Young wheat ears flitted across from the top of one drystone wall to another in front of me as I walked . |
| 27 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 28 | IT frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 29 | ‘ It frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 30 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |