Example sentences of "[prep] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 2 | If the time has come when Virgin needs a union for people 's grievances to be redressed and their rights upheld , then it would almost not be worth me going on , and I will pack up and get out . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'd miss him , and I do n't know what the legal position would be about me staying on here by myself . |
| 4 | There was a lot of quarrels about me going out , and not coming back till late . |
| 5 | And if you start to talk about me giving up and coming home with you , it ends right there . ’ |
| 6 | Well I told him that , that I was getting very tired but he would 've just worried about me coming back down you know |
| 7 | When he was dead , it was far too late for me to opt out . |
| 8 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 9 | He then proceeded , at the same time as refilling my glass rather regularly , to produce all the necessary forms which , bless his heart , he had already collected , for me to fill in and sign in order to have the cremation . |
| 10 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
| 11 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 12 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 13 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 14 | I indicated a chair and she nodded that it was OK for me to sit down . |
| 15 | Teacher : If you found a bigger box could we add it to the train for me to sit in ? |
| 16 | Of course , he 's terribly anxious for me to settle down out there , marry Cora-Beth and become an American citizen , the way his father did years ago . |
| 17 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 18 | It was useless for me to point out that the proposals were not those of the Government but of a group of advisers whose only power was to suggest . |
| 19 | But it sits long enough for me to point out the difference between the two species . |
| 20 | It is hardly necessary for me to point out that should this advice be tendered and refused by Your Majesty , only one result could follow in accordance with the requirements of constitutional monarchy , that is , the resignation of myself and the National Government . |
| 21 | It is useless for me to point out that scientific curiosity by itself is as irresponsible as the curiosity of a child . |
| 22 | Is it not just as strange for me to state out loud ‘ p , but I do n't have any vocal chords ’ ? |
| 23 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 24 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 25 | The flats face Carntyne dog track , and I gaze out of the window at the greyhounds as they sprint after the electric hare , then , late in the afternoon , transfer my attention to the road , in the hope of seeing my father appear again with sweeties , and notebooks for me to draw in . |
| 26 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's where life as a music teacher for me took off . |
| 28 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 29 | I mean one of getting round that is erm for Derek and I to transcribe them because then it 's fairly easy for me to turn round and say Listen to this . |
| 30 | She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti . |