Example sentences of "[vb past] i [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 2 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 3 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
| 4 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 5 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 6 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 7 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 8 | They laughed and clapped me on the back and handed the container round the circle again . |
| 9 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 10 | She drew me into the kitchen and stretched out her arms , leaning backward a bit , and said , ‘ How I love people who say ‘ Yes ’ to life . ’ |
| 11 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 12 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 13 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 14 | Thanks also to the kind young woman with two young children who helped me on the train and gave me an orange drink . |
| 15 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 16 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 17 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 19 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
| 20 | In the Observer , Janet Watts had no reservations : ‘ Hannah received me with the warmth and courtesy she radiates in the film and talked for three hours without any refreshment but a tooth-glass of tap water , in which she toasted my health . ’ |
| 21 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |
| 22 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 23 | He joined me at the table and poured out two generous measures of the clear liquid from the bottle . |
| 24 | After the prize giving , Mr Andrew Satow , Major Rupert Lendrum , and Mr John Grant joined me in the car and we drove , still in torrential rain , to Heathrow Airport where we joined Lord and Lady Marchwood Baron de Montesquieu , and Mrs John Grant . |
| 25 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 26 | Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it . |
| 27 | the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it . |
| 28 | He threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 29 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 30 | He did n't , he picked me up and threw me against the van and ran off . |