Example sentences of "i [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn , perhaps you 'd like to help me clear the dishes , ’ he instructed , giving her a warning glance . |
| 2 | I 'm serious about that , it grieves me greatly the possibility that he may not hear what the patch has to say . |
| 3 | And naturally , because for me hitherto the world had held no woman . |
| 4 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 5 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 6 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 7 | Because I have such regard for the right hon. Gentleman , it makes me all the more discontented to disagree with him about the proposition of permanent or automatic timetables . |
| 8 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose . |
| 10 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 11 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 12 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 13 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 14 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 15 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 16 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 17 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 18 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 19 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 20 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 21 | Put me down the block ? |
| 22 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 24 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 25 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 26 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 27 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 28 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 29 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 30 | Can you just sign that for me down the bottom there ? |