Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he bobs off to get ready for his DJing stint , someone hands me another packet of the smart drink . |
| 2 | I notice if someone gives me full cream like in cereal and I just think , I wo n't eat . |
| 3 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |
| 4 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 5 | Nobody gives me fifty dollars . " |
| 6 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 7 | She owes me two quid of this money . |
| 8 | She scares me that woman . |
| 9 | I do n't think she finds me much use . |
| 10 | Look , I 'll promise you one thing : I 'll not marry Kitty McKenna , not even if she sends me another tie . ’ |
| 11 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 12 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 13 | cos you see I get she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday |
| 14 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 16 | Come , my messenger , who brings me such reason for deep happiness , we will swim in the lake . |
| 17 | I 'm probably blowing it way out of proportion , but everything upsets me these days . |
| 18 | And one lasts me six months . |
| 19 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 20 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
| 21 | ‘ Because , my dear Hilary , he owes me some money . ’ |
| 22 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 23 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 24 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 25 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 26 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 27 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 28 | He tells me endless stories about Alice , and talks about his school quite a bit too . |
| 29 | He gives me another burn and he has one for himself , blowing the smoke back into my mouth afterwards . |
| 30 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |