Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm afraid you 'll just have to contain your Aries impatience a little longer — unless , of course , you intend to call the porter and have me put out … ’ |
| 2 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 3 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 4 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 6 | And then er tie a cushion over the back bone of the bike and have me sitting er on on this cushion on the f bike in front of him . |
| 7 | ‘ Then Robert would have stamped out the flames and carried me still smouldering into the thicket . ’ |
| 8 | It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not the money that makes me happy . |
| 10 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 11 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 12 | Even more than their magnificent appearance , I think it was the movement of the birds that captivated me — their ability to fly fast or , in the case of the owls , slow and in absolute silence , and pinpoint their prey with breathtaking accuracy , even in total darkness . |
| 13 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |
| 14 | She repeated the request about the baptism and reminded me of my promise to baptise her baby . |
| 15 | She repeated the request about the baptism and reminded me of my promise to baptise her baby . |
| 16 | Chatterton climbed down to the deck and told me that Robin-Anne had eaten a huge breakfast . |
| 17 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 18 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 19 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 20 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 21 | I gave him to Nonni who was clucking round the kitchen and said I must go and clean myself up . |
| 22 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 23 | And when I arrived in Lanyon 's house , I took the dose of the drug that returned me to my normal appearance . |
| 24 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 25 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 26 | My pursuers swarmed over into the lane and seized me . |
| 27 | Dickie had just collected the afternoon post from the postman in the lane and given me my letter before taking in the rest to his mother . |
| 28 | Shine through the storm and point me to the skies . |
| 29 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 30 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |