Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm afraid you 'll just have to contain your Aries impatience a little longer — unless , of course , you intend to call the porter and have me put out … ’ |
| 2 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 3 | And then er tie a cushion over the back bone of the bike and have me sitting er on on this cushion on the f bike in front of him . |
| 4 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 5 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 8 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 9 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 10 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 11 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 12 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 14 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 15 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 16 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 17 | They change the persona and help me to detach myself completely from my working life . |
| 18 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 19 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 20 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |
| 21 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 22 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 23 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 24 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 25 | Then they drifted back into the pub and left me standing alone . |
| 26 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 27 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) would seem to suggest all the experience I have gained and the help and support I have given to young children has no value . |
| 28 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 29 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 30 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |