Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't let me fool you into thinking that all the third category bureau are bad , some develop into excellent typesetting houses with none of the pre-conceptions of the old brigade , it 's just the majority who are dodgy . |
| 2 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 3 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 4 | No cos the health visitor , she , cos I asked her about sterilizing , and , and she said with all teats they should be sterilized no matter what age they are |
| 5 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 6 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 7 | Till eventually I mean you ere doing it with these As you were going through here you were n't looking at this table you were working some of them out you were saying , Oh that 'll be a double positive that 'll be a double double negative these 'll go together . |
| 8 | So I suppose I led you into thinking the exact opposite — that I had a swinging social life . ’ |
| 9 | But I do because I combine it with taking her [ the child ] for a walk . |
| 10 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 11 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 12 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 13 | How should I prepare it for redecorating ? |
| 14 | Perhaps she thinks I hate her for giving me up . ’ |
| 15 | I hate myself for doing it , but it comes so naturally I have no choice . |
| 16 | I hate myself for asking , but why did you leave ? |
| 17 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 18 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 19 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 20 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 21 | I solve it by pointing my eyes towards C , bringing my body into line with my eyes , and walking forwards . |
| 22 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 24 | I 'd like to take it on holiday but how do I pack it without ruining the pleats ? |
| 25 | ‘ I helped you by clearing all the leaves in the yard , ’ she told him half a dozen times , ‘ and I got a cold while I was doing it . |
| 26 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 27 | Oh , I told you about watching about erm Freddie four in the early morni , hours of the morning , did n't I ? |
| 28 | After the show , ’ said the fräulein , following an emotional and discursive preamble , ‘ the dresser woman I told you about introduced us to a man called Fedorov . |
| 29 | One of the blanc women I told you about has entered the palace ; the other has been taken by Carrefour . ’ |
| 30 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |