Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] i [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 2 | Yeah , he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro . |
| 3 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 4 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 5 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 6 | Nobody put themselves out to help me in any way at all , but I made it . |