Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours .
2 If you will be good enough to furnish me with the necessary linen , I will take it upon myself to make Lady Merchiston a degree more comfortable . ’
3 It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit .
4 You 'd better tell me about the other night .
5 You better accompany me off the main street .
6 I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos .
7 ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’
8 Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night .
9 The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ;
10 If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’
11 Although this fact does not worry me in the early stages of a work , it is not desirable when painting details .
12 Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown .
13 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 … .
14 You still owe me from the last time .
15 Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ .
16 As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of …
17 In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates .
18 Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions .
19 ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way .
20 There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years .
21 It also keeps me on the right track as well .
22 As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold .
23 Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet .
24 What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years .
25 What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’
26 She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front .
27 What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world .
28 The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs .
29 For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward .
30 I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense !
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