Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 3 | ‘ Then Robert would have stamped out the flames and carried me still smouldering into the thicket . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’ |
| 6 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 7 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 8 | I should go to the shops and get me some , get myself some actually . |
| 9 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 10 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 11 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 12 | Undistracted by Rainbow 's presence , or by the white noise that pulses continuously around Anya 's troubled soul , I perform a little self examination , to sound out the position of the binding points , and decipher the formulae that pin me down . |
| 13 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 14 | Go find the books and show me . |
| 15 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 16 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
| 17 | I said give us the keys and said I 'll take the bloody car . |
| 18 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 19 | But this is one of the experiences that taught me very early in my career that I must do the opposite . |
| 20 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 21 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 22 | He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too . |
| 23 | In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted . |
| 24 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 25 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 26 | Over the weeks that followed I noticed more of them . |
| 27 | In the end I was again rescued by the housekeeper , Zillah , who ordered away the dogs and helped me to my feet . |
| 28 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 29 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 30 | But I have told her all the stories and rhymes I know and she is getting bored . |