Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a nurse either side of me telling me to push , but I could n't push . |
| 2 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 3 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 6 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 7 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 8 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 9 | But a lot of I mean I mean there 's no sort of set- up and strategy for rail as a sort of within an integrated transport policy phone call from er John Prescott who er Tories in in transport . |
| 10 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast . |
| 13 | ‘ It was kind of you to let me know . |
| 14 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 15 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 16 | Yet 32 million of you watched me talking directly to you for half-an-hour in prime time ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Lowering of you to expect me to remember . |
| 18 | as opposed to that was a part of being a tenant , you know , for the honour of you pay me rent but you also come and work on my land for how many days |
| 19 | A parallel line crossing the Thumb to the left of They Brush Me had also been equipped by Mick Lovatt who was close to success . |
| 20 | ‘ And the lady , it is especially kind of her to allow me to stay . ’ |
| 21 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 22 | He played a very happy part in my childhood and just the thought of him makes me smile even today . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 27 | A neighbour of ours heard me shouting , came and looked over the fence , and cleared off ! |
| 28 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |