Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like the inside lanes , and if I get the right lane I think I can go under 20 seconds . |
| 2 | Oh , Mum , I need all that luck you wished me . |
| 3 | With what little money I had I would try to wear unusual suits or hats , learning a combination of subtlety and the unexpected in order to gain attention . |
| 4 | That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time . |
| 5 | In that case you give me your form , keep hold of it |
| 6 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 7 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |
| 8 | ‘ It 's that sterilizer you asked me to watch , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 9 | That car she bought me ! |
| 10 | I took her hand in mine , and we went out of the ruined place ; and , as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so , the evening mists were rising now , and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed me , I saw no shadow of another parting from her . |
| 11 | ‘ That punter you sent me yesterday … he was weird , Tone , really weird . ’ |
| 12 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 13 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 14 | It is a dead debate , and its tombstone was the BFI Reader Theories of Authorship which offered an inbuilt teleology , a narrative trajectory which led me , as a postgraduate student , away from the embarrassments of romantic individualism to the chastening rigours of poststructuralist thought . |
| 15 | Another afternoon she took me with her to deliver the knitted garments . |
| 16 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 17 | Well , having talked about my interest in , in popular literature I suppose I should begin by saying I do n't much like the distinction between good literature and pulp literature but , on the other hand , I do accept that it has a function . |
| 18 | If I ring and invent some excuse she knows me too well not to see through it . |
| 19 | Not that syrupy old Whatsisname you told me about at the beginning … |
| 20 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 21 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 22 | So if I start another tape I think I 've to put their names in first right . |
| 23 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 24 | That 's a lot , I mean that wooden fence we had I mean , a lot of garden fences are dear , but it was a pound cheaper in the garden centre at Tesco 's |
| 25 | ‘ I get lots of film synopses sent to me and after this movie I hope I will get a lot more . |
| 26 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 27 | I think Stan Collimore 's just said to the ref to the linesman on this side you know I started my run from m my half of the field but that would be a dangerous game to play against somebody with his pace is to give him too much space at the back of him . |
| 28 | After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer . |
| 29 | You ca n't beat a wet shave I find I find I mean people have said that oh having a wet shave makes my face sore and things like that . |
| 30 | Reading Unamuno , I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery : ‘ The greatest height of heroism to which an individual , like a people , can attain is to know how to face ridicule . ’ |