Example sentences of "[verb] i in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 2 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 3 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 4 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 5 | Undeterred he burst into song , serenading me in a loud baritone with Italian pop songs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 8 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 9 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 10 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 12 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 13 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 14 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 15 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 17 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 18 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 19 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 20 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 21 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 22 | ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’ |
| 23 | You put me in an embarrassing position . ’ |
| 24 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 25 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 30 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |