Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [noun] [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 so he offered me the moon to get me
2 In a parliamentary answer to me the Minister told me that he ’ had identified 18 serious irregularities and a number of additional cases involving minor breaches of the scheme rules .
3 The doctor who gave me the medication asked me , ‘ Why did you do it ? ’ and I could n't answer because I did n't know .
4 Give me the microphone let me it out .
5 I 'm not going to give them the chance to say I ca n't foster any more , I know when I , I know now when I 'm going to stop fostering .
6 A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice .
7 A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks .
8 Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’
9 After a disastrous relationship in my early twenties in which the woman made me feel like a rapist , I gave up on the idea of sex and women .
10 I must admit therefore that there is one passage in this otherwise consummate design ( A Fruit Dish ) of which the meaning escapes me .
11 Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . "
12 Though why he wants to call himself a doctor beats me .
13 And who the f-f-fantasy did I
14 But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong .
15 So I rang you and then Lyn said yeah I 'll get her to call you and then you rang me back so it was as though Lyn had give you the message to call me
16 You imagine this war gives you the excuse to disobey me and do exactly as you wish .
17 That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted .
18 ‘ What gives you the right to tell me what to do ? ’
19 ‘ I suppose you think bringing me home gives you the right to tell me which friends I should choose , do you ?
20 ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about .
21 I 'm giving you a chance to convince me .
22 ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’
23 The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising .
24 She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long .
25 Erm to give you an example let me show you this brochure here this is Page and Moy high prices and clearly that is aimed at A and B.
26 ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’
27 You did n't even give me a chance to say I would n't do it .
28 Give me a chance to prove I can make you happy ! ’
29 Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there .
30 They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep .
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