Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 2 | If it were , the day would come when the man behind the shining table lamp would toss a fountain pen in my direction and tell me to sign a piece of paper , and I would say , what the hell , why not ? |
| 3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 4 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 5 | Sergeant Moustaine punched me in the face , stuffed my shitty underpants in my mouth and ordered me to run around the parade ground holding my kitbag above my head . |
| 6 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 7 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 8 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 9 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 10 | It was extremely effective , did n't pull any punches , but had caught my eye and made me think . |
| 11 | All my days and hope I finish it here . |
| 12 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 13 | A few monsters lay against my body and made me warm . |
| 14 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 15 | What I would like to know is : what damage is the soot doing to my fish and do I have just cause to go to the council to get something done about it ? |
| 16 | Instead he took the wineskin from the horn of my saddle and forced me to drink . |
| 17 | It is therefore natural to speak of my desire for coffee as the cause of my going to the kitchen ; a quite different kind of cause would be operating if someone twisted my arm behind my back and forced me to go . |
| 18 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 19 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 20 | It was their means of controlling my behaviour and getting me to do exactly what they wanted . |
| 21 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 22 | ‘ You just grope my fanny and expect me to respond . |
| 23 | An initially kind-voiced woman took down my details and advised me to ring Chicago . |
| 24 | At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power . |
| 25 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 26 | The coachman took my luggage and called me to hurry up . |
| 27 | mask on my love and dared me to count |
| 28 | The ‘ personality ’ had to conceal my natural impatience , my moods , my fatigue and make me appear endlessly dynamic and reassuring . |
| 29 | I scratched my ear and wished I knew the answer to that one . |
| 30 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |