Example sentences of "i and [verb] i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 2 | God was saying in so many words : ‘ Because he trusted in me and put me first I will honour him . |
| 3 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 4 | It was desperately bad luck on Gary but , in a typical lovely gesture , he came across on his crutches to congratulate me and wish me well . |
| 5 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 6 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 7 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 8 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 9 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 10 | A brief structural guide is all I 'm after … and then my tutor wo n't kill me and give me bad references for being a lazy git ( which I admittedly am ) ( This was supposed to be in last july ! ! ! ) |
| 11 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 12 | She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house . |
| 13 | She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face . |
| 14 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 15 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 16 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 17 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 18 | Here 's me thinking I woke me and dressed me this morning , and all the time I 'm still in bed and dreaming . |
| 19 | You have already judged me and found me guilty . |
| 20 | A motor horn sounded off behind me and scared me silly . |