Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 2 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 3 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 5 | Drives me up the wall |
| 6 | See the but er , this room drives me up the wall ! |
| 7 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 8 | It just drives me up the wall . |
| 9 | ‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’ |
| 10 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 11 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 12 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 13 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 14 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 16 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 17 | NFC impresses me as a democratically managed organisation . |
| 18 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 19 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 20 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 21 | Ali pats me on the hand . |
| 22 | ‘ Fits me to a T. I suppose I could n't keep it , could I ? ’ |
| 23 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 24 | Lungfish joins me under the blanket . |
| 25 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 26 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 27 | It devalues me as an artist , painting is WORK , just because I 'm a woman . |
| 28 | A fully grown red tail is a massive bird , over two feet tall — this one looks me in the eye when she sits on my fist . |
| 29 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |