Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand about my waist pulls me closer . |
| 2 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 3 | simply to shut off my brain to enable me to sleep , much the same as the |
| 4 | I felt a watery feeling in my eyes as that familiar sensation of heat searing through my body engulfed me , |
| 5 | ‘ I sat patiently waiting for my buddy to join me , ’ Jinky continued . |
| 6 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 7 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 8 | Not for its elegance did I come to love the evening sky , hellish red with the gathering souls . |
| 9 | I honour my company for its willingness to accept me and my idiosyncrasies . |
| 10 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 11 | He was busy , and to get rid of me lie wrote me a letter of introduction to Ahmed Ahmedi , the vice-consul at the embassy . |
| 12 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 14 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 15 | ‘ Hello , Francis , ’ I said , to have the sound of my voice ground me . |
| 16 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 17 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 18 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 19 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 20 | And the full awfulness of my landing hit me in a rush . |
| 21 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 22 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 23 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 24 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 25 | On account of my grandfather leaving me this house we moved here from Edmonton . |
| 26 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 27 | The ghost of my son pursued me yet , his translucent image being reflected from the trunk of every tree , so that it sometimes appeared ahead of me as well as on every side . |
| 28 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 29 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 30 | ‘ They enclosed full details of their Mavica asking me to compare it with my patents . |