Example sentences of "[prep] i [verb] [adv] " 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 | What the hon. Gentleman says about me does not concern me ; but , if he is calling the local enterprise companies liars , I suggest that he repeat that outside the House . |
| 5 | about me do n't you when I 'm not there , yeah ? |
| 6 | There was a lot of quarrels about me going out , and not coming back till late . |
| 7 | And if you start to talk about me giving up and coming home with you , it ends right there . ’ |
| 8 | Well I told him that , that I was getting very tired but he would 've just worried about me coming back down you know |
| 9 | If that stage has not been reached at the end of the formal application processes it it' not for me to judge now what the Department 'll do . |
| 10 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 11 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 12 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 13 | It suddenly became very important for me to explain why my war was not over . |
| 14 | When he was dead , it was far too late for me to opt out . |
| 15 | I enjoy putting up a tent , I like campfires and food for me tastes so much better outside . |
| 16 | My son , aged five , has a very tight foreskin which does n't pull back enough for me to clean underneath it . |
| 17 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it all right for me to sit here ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | Well , you see , it 's easier for me to sit here , and to pontificate , and therefore your questions were well put , erm , we can demonstrate , I think a much more effective approach to the environment in in our field , because er , we 're dealing with chemicals which we have some control over , and which exists to some small degree in air , air machines . |
| 24 | So it 's easy for me to sit here and say , we think we 're doing a good job on the environment , because we 're not threatened , we do have to find ways round existing chemicals , we may have to pay , pay a higher price , but we 're not threatened in terms of the the core of our bottom line . |
| 25 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 26 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I indicated a chair and she nodded that it was OK for me to sit down . |
| 29 | Teacher : If you found a bigger box could we add it to the train for me to sit in ? |
| 30 | And so on , and so forth , there is no need for me to elaborate further , you understand me well enough … ’ |