Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 2 | It is then up to me to implement it successfully by controlling my behaviour whilst keeping an eye on progress towards the indicators of success . |
| 3 | David advised me to sound you out on it . |
| 4 | Then , with distant civility , ‘ Perhaps you 'll allow me to see you safely to your hotel ? ’ |
| 5 | I fully accept that , but let me throw it back at you and say you , through your brother , are arguing about the small print on an extended warranty . |
| 6 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 7 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |
| 8 | He meant me to pass it on to my son . ’ |
| 9 | In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up . |
| 10 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 11 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 12 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 13 | Sister not only gave smiling permission , she allowed me to escort him back to his car . |
| 14 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 15 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I asked him not to . ’ |
| 17 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 18 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 19 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 20 | ‘ I asked you not to . ’ |
| 21 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 22 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
| 23 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 24 | If I change it once in one place only then automatically every program on the network is using the new version of the business rule . |
| 25 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 26 | I hope that I shall not embarrass the Minister if I commend him again for his imaginative efforts and the time that he has spent abroad trying to develop inward investment . |
| 27 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 28 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 29 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 30 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |