Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 2 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 4 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 5 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 10 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 12 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 13 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 16 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 18 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 19 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 20 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 21 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 22 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 23 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 24 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 25 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 26 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 27 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 28 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 29 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 30 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |