Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 2 | If you could pour some tea in the tea in the milk I mean I think I would like it . |
| 3 | What with all those steaks I get with the money they give me here ! ’ |
| 4 | If you refuse to co-operate I can force you to pay me the money you owe me . |
| 5 | He smiled a slow smile and pointed out callously , ‘ The chances are that your business will never get off the ground and I 'll end up cheated of the money you owe me . ’ |
| 6 | Come to work for me and I 'll forget about the money you owe me . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm also returning the money you gave me . |
| 8 | Yes , when we came out here I 'll never forget Mark , not even saying thank you , not , not even for raising the money I mean I would n't expect that from the parishioners , that 's what we should be trying to do , but even for the food and that , till erm Kitty and and the way he got up then and said it , most ungraciously |
| 9 | ‘ Then that is the money he owes me . ’ |
| 10 | Once I reached the ski-road I thought I was ‘ home and dry ’ , until turning a bend I was confronted by a bull . |
| 11 | Arkan showed his less affable side when he tackled the photographer who accompanied me around the throat , throwing him out of his office and smashing his video camera underfoot . |
| 12 | If it were n't for the bit I earn I daresay me and my bairns would be in Dudley House an' all . |
| 13 | He said you were gon na give him something but you did n't know how long , long it 'll last when I was in the kitchen you said I 'll put this on but I do n't know how long it 'll last no |
| 14 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 15 | As I start painting the statue I realise I am going to have a problem . |
| 16 | As I start painting the statue I realise I am going to have a problem . |
| 17 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 18 | I had offended him , and the look he gave me was positively frightening . |
| 19 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 20 | the look he gave me and jumped out as quick as anything , I thought |
| 21 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 22 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 23 | Once I 'd discounted the story you gave me about Lori 's reasons for being there , I realised the note could only have come from her , and therefore she must have taken the jade . ’ |
| 24 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 25 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not quite the sloth you imagine me to be . ’ |
| 27 | It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results . |
| 28 | calmer than the blood which left me |
| 29 | For all the good it did me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |