Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
| 2 | ‘ Would you expect me to remain after what that woman said of me ? ’ |
| 3 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 4 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 5 | It is often the negative power I perceive within myself that is so difficult to account for , or control . |
| 6 | I commend to you all this |
| 7 | And why should n't I do as I please with my own body ? |
| 8 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 9 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 10 | Because I cheated on them both . ’ |
| 11 | I mean in my own village we have erm |
| 12 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 13 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 14 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 15 | How much can I explain in my own words ? |
| 16 | That 's how I got into it that 's for sure . |
| 17 | There 's no job in the industry I covet above my own , but I dearly wish I could spend more time designing and less on paperwork . |
| 18 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 19 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 20 | I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’ |
| 21 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 22 | Look how well Charles and I fit into our own quarter of it ! ’ |
| 23 | First of all , I suggest to you that communication ar is an absolutely key process . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 25 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 26 | She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ May I present to you those members of my family who are at present — ah — available , ’ said Reni . |
| 28 | ‘ I kill in my own time , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 30 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |