Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 2 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 3 | Two glasses of wine send me high over the rainbowed moon . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 5 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 6 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 7 | I 'll judge marmosets if you catch me nicely in a weak moment on the end of a moribund week . |
| 8 | Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain . |
| 9 | They impress me less in the beautiful central Andante in C minor : it needs expressive playing which should be poignant without overstepping the bounds of musical propriety that Mozart set himself , and here it sounds merely pleasing . |
| 10 | Another chapter today would see me nicely into the second half of my story , and this evening I would talk to Crispin and get things sorted out with him . |
| 11 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 12 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 13 | He could have humiliated me totally with a one-night stand . |
| 14 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 15 | I find it very depressing because it takes me away from the constructive side of the business and into being a sort of financial PR and being defensive . |
| 16 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 17 | ‘ She paid to send me away on a racing car school course at Magny-Cours in France , ’ admitted Damon . |
| 18 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
| 19 | Then Melinda kindly guided me outside into the harsh sunlight of the street . |
| 20 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 21 | The Agent tells me apologetically about the superstitious fears of these simple people . |
| 22 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 23 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 24 | ‘ Doctor Henry Jekyll sent me here on an important matter . |
| 25 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 26 | God was there and there seemed no need to pray or sing hymns either to transport me away from the present reality or to ward off danger by attracting God 's attention . |
| 27 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 28 | Impels me onward through the glowing orbs |
| 29 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 30 | This is not telling me much about the far side of the hill , he thought . |