Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 2 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 3 | Everything about it has helped me to grapple with the intricacies of machine knitting in this , my second year . |
| 4 | But this spring 's burst of blossom on older trees in the garden has had me thumbing through the catalogues again . |
| 5 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 6 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 7 | Cool as you like , Paul bloody Lexington has asked me to sit in the wings for the entire run of this play and feed Micky Banks his lines ! ’ |
| 8 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 9 | ‘ He has asked me to apologise to the family of the deceased for his part in the distress that they have been caused , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 10 | Writing this book has encouraged me to reflect upon the changes which have occurred in primary education in England and Wales since the end of World War II . |
| 11 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 12 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 13 | I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down . |
| 14 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
| 15 | I did n't even wait for the curtain call and the audience must have seen me charging through the lobby as they made their way out . |
| 16 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 17 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 18 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 19 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 20 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 21 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 22 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 23 | You know , when I said let me know about the blood results , I did n't expect you to call in person . ’ |
| 24 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 25 | I had more or less finished when the copper who had pulled me appeared from the back office and lifted the flap in the desk to get by me . |
| 26 | What had started me thinking about the underground — or the informal sector — was spending a couple of years in Latin America . |
| 27 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 28 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 29 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 30 | It does n't sort of get to me nowadays , I 've learned to deal with prejudice , but in a funny kind of way , it 's helped me get from the bottom to the top . |