Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] i [adv prt] [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 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 5 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 6 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 7 | Two days before she was killed , she phoned me out of the blue . |
| 8 | She hauled me out of the room and virtually pulled me up the stairs : I thought my shoulder would come out of its socket . |
| 9 | ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ? |
| 10 | It 's why you pulled me back inside the train when you could have left me to die . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Good thing you brought me along with the baggage , you know . |
| 13 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 14 | She kept me out of the orphanage . |
| 15 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 16 | She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father . |
| 17 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 18 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 21 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 22 | ‘ They threw me out of the hostel . |
| 23 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 24 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 25 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 26 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 27 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 28 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 30 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |