Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] i [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take a complete break from your obsession and call me in two weeks . ’ |
| 2 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 3 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 4 | I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 6 | But the only thing there was a fragile gecko , which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes . |
| 7 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 8 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 9 | I want you to move to another booth and call me in forty seconds on this number . |
| 10 | Do you remember the lady who rushed to your assistance last night and accused me of all those unspeakable designs on your virtue ? ’ |
| 11 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 12 | The day they come to the door and denounce me in fluent Anglo-Saxon for a Scarlet Woman , then I 'll think about it . ’ |
| 13 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 14 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 15 | Harold Evans clearly had seen the List and regaled me with some of its more unlikely names . |
| 16 | Put me in the oven and bake me for forty minutes . |
| 17 | He put an arm around my shoulder and steered me to one of the leather sofas which had a girl where other sofas have cushions . |
| 18 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 19 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 20 | He strokes it with care , removing a little fleck of dust from the scratchplate and leaves me with one of those great Suede quotes . |
| 21 | How dare you break into my house and assault me like this ? ’ |