Example sentences of "of [pers pn] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 2 | A lot of them I recognized from school : they were in the pub every night , with their dads , and would be there for ever , never going away . |
| 3 | There have been many things said by earlier speakers and very few of them I disagree with . |
| 4 | CATHERINE It was because of her I went to the head that time at the school . |
| 5 | The photograph of her I found in Rome , in the gardens of the monastery — I take it out and look at it . |
| 6 | In front of him I said to our host , ‘ Your cook is marvellous ’ . |
| 7 | Anyway , I met Salinger in London to go over the story with him and confirmed those parts of it I knew to be true . |
| 8 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 9 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |