Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 4 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 5 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 6 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 7 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 8 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 9 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 10 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 11 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 12 | Lay me alongside the French admiral ! ’ |
| 13 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 14 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 15 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 17 | The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs . |
| 18 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 20 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 21 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 22 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 23 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 24 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 25 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 26 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 27 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 28 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 29 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 30 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |