Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 3 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 4 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 5 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Yet 32 million of you watched me talking directly to you for half-an-hour in prime time ’ . |
| 8 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 9 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 10 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 11 | A neighbour of ours heard me shouting , came and looked over the fence , and cleared off ! |
| 12 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My exam results and my father 's comments upon them left me shrivelled . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For the conflict of emotions in me caused me to burst into tears . |
| 21 | What ancestral thing in me prompted me to know the cry of wolves ? |
| 22 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 23 | but in , no it 's not red , it 'll , I think it 's military police , erm , that 's how she can do it with er , erm a maroon beret , because she said to me did I want a peaked cap ? and I said no the , the er , erm maroon beret , so it shows its the parachute regiment |
| 24 | As Doreen says to me did I see the one on number six ? |
| 25 | Anyway I said to I said I left today , I . |
| 26 | I said , he wo n't be able to she said I think he will . |
| 27 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 28 | My nose was bigger than most people 's , and being punched on it made me cry with pain . |
| 29 | It was n't a sound I ever remembered him having made , but certain things about it made me think it came from Quigley . |
| 30 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |