Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues .
2 It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead .
3 He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex .
4 ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days .
5 Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks .
6 As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton .
7 I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’
8 ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing .
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