Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 2 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 3 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 4 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 5 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 7 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 8 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 9 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 10 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 11 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 12 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 13 | The answers to these questions seemed to elude me in the small hours in dampest Solihull , my mind seemed to be preoccupied by the pain coming from my back , neck and yes my backside as well ! |
| 14 | Gilbert had served my Mass every morning and was now writing to tell me about the approaching Easter examinations and was hoping to do well . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 16 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis ! |
| 18 | Father had promised to take me with the added bonus of an afternoon off school . |
| 19 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 20 | He said right then I suppose you 're going to take me over the wee pub now . |
| 21 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 22 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 24 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 25 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 26 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 27 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 28 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 30 | I will try to contact you by telephone , but if I do not manage it , I would be grateful if you could try to ring me on the above number , extension 4425 . |