Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms .
2 The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in .
3 Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction .
4 She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches .
5 The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements .
6 ‘ Oh , come on , Deveraugh , quit messing around and let me on the damn boat . ’
7 Now I need you to back up my story and put me in the clear .
8 ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house .
9 Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc .
10 She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the outer door .
11 Well , gravity was stretching me one way-in the direction pointing to the centre of the hole — and crushing me in the sideways direction , right ?
12 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
13 My companion put it to me that an initiative must now be taken , and reminded me of the unrecorded conversation at the time of my appointment .
14 When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out , he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave .
15 I would be most grateful if you could recommend and advise me on the aforementioned , plus compressors .
16 She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … .
17 The annual general meeting our A G M is next week where , where we , we elect all the officers , the Guild officers , who will serve with me , and help me on the forthcoming year .
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