Example sentences of "'s [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's altered me in ways I ca n't even describe . ’ |
| 2 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 4 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's given me until tomorrow to produce a thousand dollars . ’ , |
| 6 | He 'll be sorry he 's treated me like this , Ellen ! ’ |
| 7 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 8 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 9 | Somehow she felt this to be a fact , so she said , ‘ Yes — he 's trusted me with such things as letters and accounts . |
| 10 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 11 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 12 | It 's reminded me of something . |
| 13 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 14 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 15 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 16 | It 's seen me through a lot . " |
| 17 | ‘ Since then , he 's seen me through some incredible times . |
| 18 | I whimpered like a child , crouching in the cold , slimy darkness , until the grille above was pulled back and a bailiff with a face like a gargoyle 's lashed me with a whip , before lowering a stoup of brackish water and a fly-infested dish of rancid meat . |
| 19 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's prevented me from retreating into ultraspecialist activities . ’ |
| 21 | She 's told me about your accident yesterday , but I gather that 's not what 's troubling you ? ’ |
| 22 | Because I believe , that only through him , what he 's told me about the club , that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I really am doing . |
| 23 | They are like , and I 've come here to maybe to help get them in a , a better position , because I believe that , only through him , what he 's told me about the club ; that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I 'm really am doing . |
| 24 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 25 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 26 | He 's helped me with my putting particularly . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's helped me through this depression , actually . |
| 28 | But the trouble is he 's got me into the way of thinking |
| 29 | I mean , now he 's got me at his mercy , he 's not going to do what anyone would expect . |
| 30 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |