Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | simply to shut off my brain to enable me to sleep , much the same as the |
| 2 | Not for its elegance did I come to love the evening sky , hellish red with the gathering souls . |
| 3 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 5 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 6 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 7 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 8 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 9 | ‘ They enclosed full details of their Mavica asking me to compare it with my patents . |
| 10 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
| 11 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 12 | Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet . |
| 13 | Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given it to you . |
| 14 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |
| 15 | The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax . |
| 16 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 17 | She saw me looking at her and thrusting the bag under my nose invited me to take a pinch . |
| 18 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 19 | Nowhere in my diary do I mention this physical discomfort , and even now I ca n't remember it as amounting to pain , although I do remember the school doctor drawing the matron 's attention to the extensive bruising on the softer parts of my body . |
| 20 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 21 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 22 | never in my life had I done anything like this before . |
| 23 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 24 | " Never in my life have I questioned an appointment , " she said , weighing every word . |
| 25 | Before the editors of trade magazines start sticking sub-editors ' spikes in my effigy let me explain that their publications perform a valuable function and are extremely interesting to their readers . |
| 26 | At this stage in my Mespot tour I had a bit of luck . |
| 27 | There was a wet fish shop just there and in my eagerness to escape I darted in . |
| 28 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 29 | The dryness in his voice made me feel that I was being very naive . |
| 30 | In what way have I changed ? ’ he asked silkily . |