Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 2 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 4 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 5 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 8 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 9 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 10 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 14 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 15 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 16 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 17 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 18 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 19 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 20 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 21 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 22 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 24 | That 's it : he 's infecting me with the bloodiness of his dreams . |
| 25 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 26 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 28 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 29 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 30 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |