Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 2 | Those new-age prats think they can flush me out with a bit of colonic irrigation . |
| 3 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Uniforms bring me out in a rash . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 6 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 7 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 8 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 9 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 11 | The sound of a running stream invited me over to a bridge . |
| 12 | Evening : invited me home to a buffet meal with a group of friends and colleagues , including , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Correspondence Course , CIEFL ) , ( Materials Production , CIEFL ) . |
| 13 | The relationship between staff and students of University College , apart from the pastoral care of the few Anglican students and staff , involved me increasingly in a study of the history and culture of Burma . |
| 14 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 15 | ‘ Knock me down with a feather , to coin a phrase , ’ said Andrée , ‘ it 's his , it 's saintly Michel 's retreat . |
| 16 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 17 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 18 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 19 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 20 | I 'd like to skip over this decision because it wakes me up in a sweat fairly often . |
| 21 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 22 | Another time , the dwarf picked me up and dropped me quickly into a bowl of milk on the table . |
| 23 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 24 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 25 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 26 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 27 | Martin Fleischmann told me how over a whiskey in Pons ' kitchen he remarked , ‘ It 's a billion to one chance , shall we do it ? ’ and Pons replied , ‘ Let's have a go . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That would do me out of a job . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |