Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 2 | " Do I get a word of thanks or do I not ? " |
| 3 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 4 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 5 | Christ be in all my thinking about me , Christ be in all , Christ be the with eyes that see me , with ears that hear me , Christ ever be . |
| 6 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 7 | But it was her eyes that startled me . |
| 8 | Christ be in all my thinking about me , Christ be in all , Christ be the with eyes that see me , with ears that hear me , Christ ever be . |
| 9 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 10 | We did pain relief and I did all my exercises , had films , talks , books that give me advice and everything , dead good they are . |
| 11 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 12 | I will find some shops that suit me . ’ |
| 13 | Undistracted by Rainbow 's presence , or by the white noise that pulses continuously around Anya 's troubled soul , I perform a little self examination , to sound out the position of the binding points , and decipher the formulae that pin me down . |
| 14 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 15 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 16 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 17 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 18 | through my ears and gives me a headache |
| 19 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 20 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 21 | Well , cut off my legs and call me Shorty , it 's you guvnor . ’ |
| 22 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 23 | My Stock will blaze when other snuffs are out ; a Rising Star is worth two setting Suns : And now that in the style of my Siege of Memphis , opportunity reaches forth her silver hairs and bids me hold . |
| 24 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |
| 25 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 26 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 27 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 28 | I had to be at his side as he opened his eyes and saw me there in my lonely vigil … |
| 29 | ‘ You 're supposed to roll your eyes and assure me that I just had the low-cal , spun-out-of-air version of — whatever all that incredible stuff was . ’ |
| 30 | The next day , before a meeting with the United Nations electoral observer team , Ortega parted the sea of cameramen and journalists and approached me . |