Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 2 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 3 | But , I know black people who are watching me in the audience or on the TV are thinking it 's a black versus white thing . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 5 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 7 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 8 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 10 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 11 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 12 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 13 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 17 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 18 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |
| 19 | My mate who is driving me to the match tomorrow says he wants to go straight to the ground so I wo n't be able to get to the Adelphi . |
| 20 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 21 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 22 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 23 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 24 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 26 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 27 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 28 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 29 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |