Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A neighbour of ours heard me shouting , came and looked over the fence , and cleared off ! |
| 32 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 33 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 34 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 35 | ‘ Everything about you makes me feel that , ’ he murmured . |
| 36 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
| 37 | I think that 's the trouble with Christmas , I said to Rob , in a way , I said I hope when I get to mum and dad 's age I wo n't expect my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I 'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere |
| 38 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 39 | I kept waiting and waiting for you to ask me to stay but you did n't . |
| 40 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 41 | Reasons for my dismissal were nothing like I think I deserved . |
| 42 | If it 's rotating round like you want me to draw . |
| 43 | Well they just fell behind you know I mean |
| 44 | Do n't look like it cause I think they finish earlier on Friday . |
| 45 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
| 46 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 47 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 48 | it 's been tinkered around with I mean I do n't |
| 49 | I , I just said to him , when he said we 've got these census point ahead I said well we 've got certain restrictions , you know , we 've certain rules and regulations we 've got ta comply with I mean I did n't reel off any of this blah . |
| 50 | In a way I blamed her for it , and to start with I think I hated her . |
| 51 | Well she we to start with she went I think it might of been that cos we put Guy in it I think , that might have upset her . |
| 52 | I 'M NOT SHARING WITH YOU 'TILL I KNOW YOUR GENDER |
| 53 | I mean , of course it 's always done that , but now , with you telling me to look at it , this seems the most noteworthy feature , this clench . ’ |
| 54 | Lucy , I 'm in love with you like I 've never been with anyone before . |
| 55 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 56 | My exam results and my father 's comments upon them left me shrivelled . |
| 57 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 58 | For the conflict of emotions in me caused me to burst into tears . |
| 59 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 60 | What ancestral thing in me prompted me to know the cry of wolves ? |