Example sentences of "i [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 2 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 3 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 4 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 5 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 6 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 7 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 8 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 10 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 11 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 12 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 13 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 14 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 15 | Now er reminded me of the next thing really I ought to have got on to . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 19 | And that when our Alice got married Jim gave it me with a threepenny bit in . |
| 20 | So you 're gon na leave me with the dear stool then are you ? |
| 21 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 22 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 23 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 24 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
| 25 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 26 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 27 | They remembered me from the previous year too . |
| 28 | We stayed put , ’ said seventy-three-year-old Jean Greig , showing me round the old house where JTR had fallen in love with sunny-hearted Sheilla . |
| 29 | This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality . |
| 30 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |