Example sentences of "[verb] i in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 2 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 6 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 7 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 8 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 9 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 10 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 11 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 12 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 15 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 16 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 17 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 18 | If a Region would like a special overseas visitor not catered for in the Grid system , they can contact me in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 21 | I have n't a clue about the layout of this house , so you 're going to have to point me in the right direction ! ’ |
| 22 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 23 | Awaits me in the scented dark . |
| 24 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 25 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc . |
| 28 | ‘ DO N'T MENTION me in the same paragraph as Ace ! ’ |
| 29 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |