Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] i [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 3 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 4 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |
| 5 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 6 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 7 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 8 | Two days before she was killed , she phoned me out of the blue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 11 | She hauled me out of the room and virtually pulled me up the stairs : I thought my shoulder would come out of its socket . |
| 12 | ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ? |
| 13 | Then she swiped me right across the nose , claws at full stretch . |
| 14 | It 's why you pulled me back inside the train when you could have left me to die . |
| 15 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 16 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 17 | Good thing you brought me along with the baggage , you know . |
| 18 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 19 | She kept me out of the orphanage . |
| 20 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 21 | She punched me lightly on the chest . |
| 22 | She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father . |
| 23 | She swept me away from the door , along a line of cars , into her aged scarlet mini , gave me a handkerchief , and let me cry it out . |
| 24 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 25 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 26 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 27 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 28 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 29 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 30 | ‘ They threw me out of the hostel . |